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Authorised form of nameKarman; Theodore von (1881 - 1963)
Other forms of nameTheodore
Other forms of surnamevon Karman
Dates1881 - 1963
Place of birthBudapest, Hungary
Date of birth11 May 1881
Place of deathAachen, Germany
Date of death07/05/1963
Research fieldAerodynamics
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election09/05/1946
SourceSources:
DSB
References:
G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1966 vol 12 pp 335-365, plate, by S Goldstein
CodeNA1820
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1946/28Karman, Theodore von: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/64/79Referee's report by Louis Napoleon George Filon, on a paper 'On the statistical theory of isotropic turbulence' by Theodore von Karman and Leslie Howarth[March 1937]
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