page_title: Theodore von Kármán
hierarchical_section_title: Theodore von Kármán
caption_attribution_description: Theodore von Karman, hongarian and american engineer and physicist (1881-1963)
context_page_description: Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian: (szőlőskislaki) Kármán Tódor [(søːløːʃkiʃlɒki) ˈkaːrmaːn ˈtoːdor]; 11 May 1881 – 6 May 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the 20th century.
caption: Von Kármán at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1950
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