caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality name parents birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
henri 1967 coandă at a meeting with nicolae ceaușescu in 25 november 1972 bucharest bucharest romanian henri coandă constantin -rrb- coandă -lrb- father -rrb- aida danet -lrb- mother 7 june 1886 coandă effect , aeronautical engineering iiccr g240 ceausescu coanda crop.jpg henri coandă
 henri marie coandă engineer , physicist , inventor technical university of berlin montefiore institute
henri coandă

`` for other uses , see coanda -lrb- disambiguation -rrb- '' henri marie coandă -lrb- ; 7 june 1886 -- 25 november 1972 -rrb- was a romanian inventor , aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft , the coandă-1910 described by coandă in the mid-1950s as the world 's first jet , a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others .
he invented a great number of devices , designed a `` flying saucer '' and discovered the coandă effect of fluid dynamics .
