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Arthur Rudolph

1906 - 1996

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Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9, 1906 – January 1, 1996) was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. After World War II, the United States government's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) brought him to the U.S. as part of the clandestine Operation Paperclip, where he became one of the main developers of the U.S. space program. He worked within the U.S. Army and NASA, where he managed the development of several systems, including the Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket. In 1984, the U.S. government investigated him for war crimes, and he agreed to renounce his United States citizenship and leave the U.S. in return for not being prosecuted. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Rudolph is the 240th most popular engineer (up from 280th in 2019), the 4,008th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,588th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Arthur Rudolph ranks 240 out of 389. Before him are Jon Postel, Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov, Eilmer of Malmesbury, Alfred Neubauer, René Panhard, and Hidetsugu Yagi. After him are Yahya Ayyash, Ferdinand Mannlicher, Charles F. Brush, Eugène Flachat, Ed Heinemann, and Louis Vicat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Arthur Rudolph ranks 230. Before him are Harri Larva, Hermione Baddeley, Wolfgang Staudte, Rudolf Krčil, Penn Nouth, and Josef Čtyřoký. After him are Alberto Zorrilla, John D. Rockefeller III, Roman Karmen, Olga Taussky-Todd, Albert Charles Smith, and Aileen Riggin. Among people deceased in 1996, Arthur Rudolph ranks 177. Before him are Ferdinand Leitner, Paul Rand, San Yu, Vagn Holmboe, Mikael Tariverdiev, and Aruna Asaf Ali. After him are Arleigh Burke, Inger Jacobsen, Yahya Ayyash, Og Mandino, Yulii Khariton, and Jurandir de Freitas.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Arthur Rudolph ranks 4,010 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Campendonk (1889), Wolfgang Dremmler (1954), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Hans Felber (1889), and Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852). After him are Karl Mai (1928), Gustav Spörer (1822), Otto Siffling (1912), Agnes Block (1629), Christa Stubnick (1933), and Siegfried Buback (1920).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Arthur Rudolph ranks 28. Before him are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Hugo Eckener (1868), Peter Hirsch (1925), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Grashof (1826), and Johann Georg Halske (1814). After him are Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Paul Mauser (1838), Gerhard Fieseler (1896), Oskar von Miller (1855), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), and Christopher Cockerell (1910).

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