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Walter Thiel

1910 - 1943

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Walter Thiel (3 March 1910, Breslau – 17 August 1943, Karlshagen, near Peenemünde) was a German rocket scientist. Thiel provided the decisive ideas for the A4 (V-2) rocket engine and his research enabled rockets to head towards space. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Thiel is the 257th most popular engineer (down from 250th in 2019), the 901st most popular biography from Poland (down from 869th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Walter Thiel ranks 257 out of 389. Before him are Brian McGuire, Waloddi Weibull, Louis Pouzin, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Mikhail Simonov, and Marcel Deprez. After him are Ransom E. Olds, Gioacchino Colombo, Sam Eyde, Nikolay Kamov, Pierre Cérésole, and Paul Mauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Walter Thiel ranks 231. Before him are Vivien Thomas, Léon Poliakov, Jutta Rüdiger, Charles Crichton, Henry L. Giclas, and Miquel Crusafont i Pairó. After him are Ma Zhongying, Piero Pasinati, Antal Szabó, Hilde Schrader, Karl Zischek, and Heitor Canalli. Among people deceased in 1943, Walter Thiel ranks 160. Before him are Aliagha Shikhlinski, Nikolai Avksentiev, George Hillyard, Harry Baur, Ioannis Persakis, and Radclyffe Hall. After him are Eva Kotchever, Heinrich Zimmer, Maurice Hemelsoet, Estella Agsteribbe, Attila Petschauer, and Adolf Urban.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Walter Thiel ranks 901 out of 1,694. Before him are Wilhelm Hemprich (1796), Tomasz Stańko (1942), Eva-Maria Hagen (1934), Willibald Alexis (1798), Jędrzej Moraczewski (1870), and Jacek Gmoch (1939). After him are Szymon Czechowicz (1689), Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria (1879), Arno Holz (1863), Szymon Goldberg (1909), Bogdan Borusewicz (1949), and Piotr Szulkin (1950).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Walter Thiel ranks 8. Before him are Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), Henryk Dembiński (1791), and Johannes Winkler (1897). After him are Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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