Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963) |
| Upload media |
|
| Name in native language | - Tódor Kármán ([ˈtoːdor ˈkaːrmaːn])
|
|---|
| Date of birth | 11 May 1881
Budapest (Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary)
Kármán Tivadar Mihály |
|---|
| Date of death | 7 May 1963
Aachen (West Germany) |
|---|
| Place of burial | |
|---|
| Country of citizenship | |
|---|
| Educated at | |
|---|
| Doctoral advisor | |
|---|
| Doctoral student | - Maurice Anthony Biot (1932)
- Louis Dunn (1940)
- Richard G. Folsom (1932)
- Giuseppe Gabrielli (1926)
- Arthur T. Ippen (1936)
- Wolfgang Klemperer (1926)
- Chia-Chiao Lin (1944)
- Frank Malina (1940)
- Frank E. Marble (1947)
- Stanford Solomon Penner (1946)
- Franz Nikolaus Scheubel (1927)
- William R. Sears (1938)
- Ernest Edwin Sechler (1934)
- Wallace D. Hayes (1947)
- Qian Xuesen (1935)
- Homer Joseph Stewart
- Frank Wattendorf
- Robert S. Schairer
- William Bollay
- John Brahtz
- …
|
|---|
| Occupation | |
|---|
| Employer | |
|---|
| Member of | - Royal Society (1946–)
- National Academy of Sciences (1938–)
- American Philosophical Society
- French Academy of Sciences
- Lincean Academy
- Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint Isabel of Hungary
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Association of University Professors
- American Astronautical Society
- American Geophysical Union
- American Mathematical Society
- American Meteorological Society
- National Defense Industrial Association
- American Physical Society
- American Rocket Society
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Association Française des Ingénieurs et Techniciens de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
- Associazione Italiana di Aerotecnica
- Calcutta Mathematical Society
- Franklin Institute
- Indian Academy of Sciences
- Institute of the Aerospace Sciences
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Royal Aeronautical Society
- Weizmann Institute of Science
- Academy of Sciences of Turin (1928–)
|
|---|
| Position held | - university teacher (1912–1930)
- teacher (1902–1906)
- university teacher (1930–1949)
- Privatdozent (1908–1912)
- professor emeritus (1949–)
- director (1930–1949)
- chairperson (1952–1963)
- president (1960)
- chairperson (1946–1955)
- director (1912–1930)
|
|---|
| Field of work | |
|---|
| Native language | |
|---|
| Father | |
|---|
| Mother | |
|---|
| Sibling | |
|---|
| Work location | |
|---|
| Notable work | |
|---|
| Award received | - honorary chairperson
- honorary chairperson
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1929)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1940)
- Medal for Merit (1946)
- John Fritz Medal (1948)
- Franklin Medal (1948)
- Kelvin Gold Medal (1950)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (1952)
- Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy (1954)
- Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1955)
- Department of the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service (1955)
- Medal of Freedom (1956)
- Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring (1956)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1956)
- Goddard Gold Medal (1960)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1960)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1947)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1948)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1953)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1953)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1961)
- Doctor of Law (honorary) (1959)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1955)
- Doctor of Engineering (honorary) (1959)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1958)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1951)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1952)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1952)
- Doctor of Science (honorary) (1954)
- …
|
|---|
|
 |
