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Max Valier

1895 - 1930

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Max Valier (9 February 1895 – 17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He was a leading figure in the world's first large-scale rocket program, Opel-RAK, and helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Valier is the 294th most popular inventor (up from 302nd in 2019), the 3,262nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,337th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Italian Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Max Valier ranks 294 out of 426. Before him are Cyrus McCormick, Mark Rober, Ralph Hartley, Petrache Poenaru, Frank Zamboni, and Yoshiro Nakamatsu. After him are Samuel Morland, Jacob Perkins, Mohamed M. Atalla, Kálmán Kandó, L. L. Langstroth, and Leonardo Torres y Quevedo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Max Valier ranks 187. Before him are André Chéron, Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Erich Abraham, Liane Haid, Nikifor, and Conchita Supervía. After him are Harold Hotelling, Valentin Loos, Erich Buschenhagen, Josef Uridil, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, and José Díaz. Among people deceased in 1930, Max Valier ranks 86. Before him are Julio Romero de Torres, Enrico Forlanini, Henri Jobier, Bill Tuttle, Mary Whiton Calkins, and Albert von Le Coq. After him are Misuzu Kaneko, Alexander Bogomazov, Florbela Espanca, Herbert Hall Turner, Valeriano Weyler, and Kakutsa Cholokashvili.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Max Valier ranks 3,263 out of 5,161. Before him are Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Jimmy Fontana (1934), Roberto Malone (1956), Aristide Guarneri (1938), Fiorenzo Angelini (1916), and Claudio Scimone (1934). After him are Cesare Arzelà (1847), Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri (1944), Giacomo Bulgarelli (1940), Piero Tosi (1927), Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (-1), and Laura Cereta (1469).

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Among INVENTORS In Italy

Among inventors born in Italy, Max Valier ranks 8. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi (1874), Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655), Antonio Meucci (1808), Johann Maria Farina (1685), Ottaviano Petrucci (1466), and Angelo Moriondo (1851). After him are Giovanni Caselli (1815), and Andrew Viterbi (1935).

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