Theodore von Kármán

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5 total works indexed

1. IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

   · 2014 · cited 23,842x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

3. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

   · 2017 · cited 16,476x

4. The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies

   · 2007 · cited 16,466x

5. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets

   · 2018 · cited 15,409x

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Quotes

• “I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.”
• “Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.”
• “A scientist studies what is, whereas an engineer creates what never was.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1881-05-11 ) May 11, 1881, Budapest , Austria-Hungary

Died

May 6, 1963 (1963-05-06) (aged 81), Aachen , West Germany

Resting place

Hollywood Forever Cemetery , Hollywood, California U.S.

Citizenship

Hungary United States

Alma mater

Budapest University of Technology and Economics University of Göttingen

Known for

See list Kármán vortex street von Kármán constant von Kármán swirling flow von Kármán momentum integral Kármán–Moore theory Kármán–Moore solution Kármán line Kármán–Howarth equation Law of the wall Supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization

Awards

ASME Medal (1941) John Fritz Medal (1948) Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy (1954) Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1955) Timoshenko Medal (1958) National Medal of Science (1962) Wilhelm Exner Medal (1962) Foreign Member of the Royal Society

Fields

Aerospace engineering

Institutions

University of Göttingen RWTH Aachen California Institute of Technology von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

Thesis

Investigations on buckling strength (1908)

Doctoral advisor

Ludwig Prandtl

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Image

Theodor von Kármán sketch 1931.png

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