The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space

376 pp Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian, 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 was responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as an outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the 20th century.[3][4][5][6]--Wikipedia