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Friedrich Zander

1887 - 1933

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Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander (also Tsander; Russian: Фри́дрих Арту́рович Ца́ндер, romanized: Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander; Latvian: Frīdrihs Canders; 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1887 – 28 March 1933) was a Russian and Soviet pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight, of Baltic German descent. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Zander is the 155th most popular inventor (up from 175th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 40th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Friedrich Zander ranks 155 out of 426. Before him are Robert Cailliau, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Henri Giffard, Mary Anderson, Peter Henlein, and Robert Moog. After him are Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Joseph Monier, Paul Baran, Christopher Latham Sholes, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and Elizabeth Holmes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Friedrich Zander ranks 84. Before him are Raoul Walsh, Simko Shikak, Vasily Chapayev, Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg, Kazimierz Fajans, and Hitoshi Ashida. After him are François Faber, George, Crown Prince of Serbia, Korechika Anami, Josef Lada, Avery Brundage, and Roscoe Arbuckle. Among people deceased in 1933, Friedrich Zander ranks 38. Before him are Henry Royce, Archduke Charles Stephen of Austria, Albert Calmette, Francesc Macià, Hans Vaihinger, and Pierre Paul Émile Roux. After him are Raymond Roussel, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Sen Katayama, Roscoe Arbuckle, Henri Duparc, and Anagarika Dharmapala.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Friedrich Zander ranks 34 out of 323. Before him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692), Viktors Arājs (1910), Pēteris Vasks (1946), and Abraham Isaac Kook (1865). After him are Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Oswald Külpe (1862), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), Raimonds Pauls (1936), and Annie Londonderry (1870).

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Among INVENTORS In Latvia

Among inventors born in Latvia, Friedrich Zander ranks 1. After him are Walter Zapp (1905), and Jacob W. Davis (1831).

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