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Alexander Lippisch

1894 - 1976

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Alexander Martin Lippisch (2 November 1894 – 11 February 1976) was a German aeronautical engineer, a pioneer of aerodynamics who made important contributions to the understanding of tailless aircraft, delta wings and the ground effect, and also worked in the U.S. Within the Opel-RAK program, he was the designer of the world's first rocket-powered glider. He developed and conceptualized delta wing designs which functioned practically in supersonic delta wing fighter aircraft as well as in hang gliders. People he worked with continued the development of the delta wing and supersonic flight concepts over the 20th century. His most famous designs are the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor and the Dornier Aerodyne. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Lippisch is the 127th most popular engineer (down from 120th in 2019), the 2,533rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,190th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Alexander Lippisch ranks 127 out of 389. Before him are Valdemar Poulsen, Yevgeny Dragunov, Ivan Sechenov, Rory Byrne, Guenther Steiner, and Nikolai Polikarpov. After him are Henryk Dembiński, W. Ross Ashby, Léon Charles Thévenin, Flaminio Bertoni, Li Kui, and Georgy Shpagin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Alexander Lippisch ranks 98. Before him are Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, René Fonck, Max Weinreich, Jerzy Neyman, Pavel Rybalko, and Ottavio Bottecchia. After him are Ivan Isakov, Georges Guynemer, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Claude Cahun, Friedrich Pollock, and Jacques Henri Lartigue. Among people deceased in 1976, Alexander Lippisch ranks 87. Before him are Zhang Wentian, Rudolf Kempe, Mickey Cohen, Wilhelm Marschall, Hans von Obstfelder, and Tommy Bolin. After him are Evert Taube, Orlando Letelier, Gottfried von Cramm, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Alexander Novikov, and Paul Robeson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alexander Lippisch ranks 2,534 out of 7,253. Before him are Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1636), Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Christoph Schneider (1966), John Albert II (1590), and Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1713). After him are Johann Michael Bach (1648), Otto Schott (1851), Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755), Adolf Meyer (1881), William II, Elector of Hesse (1777), and Felix Nussbaum (1904).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Alexander Lippisch ranks 15. Before him are Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), and Erich Topp (1914). After him are Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Claude Dornier (1884), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Walter Hohmann (1880), and Anton Flettner (1885).

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