Guido von Pirquet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Hirschstetten, Vienna, Austria
About Guido von Pirquet
- Guido von Pirquet (30 March 1880 – 17 April 1966) was an Austrian pioneer of astronautics and a Baron of a lower noble family.Born near Vienna, he was educated at Technische Hochschule in Vienna and Graz.
- He developed an interest in rocketry, building and testing model rockets in 1927.
- In 1928, he proposed the idea of building a space station in low Earth orbit (LEO) for fueling vehicles to travel to the other planets.
- He published detailed calculations for this type of mission.
- For this reason, he (together with Herman Potocnik) is considered the "father of the space station".
- Along with Rudolf Zwerina, he founded the Austrian Society for Rocket Technology in 1931.
- His interest in rocketry waned following the Anschluss in 1938.Guido von Pirquet is one of several scientists working in the pre-spaceflight era (1920-1957) who fully understood the promise of the gravity assist method for reducing flight time and increasing payload to the outer planets.
- He gave detailed formulas showing how close passage of Jupiter could be used to make a large change in the velocity and orbital energy of a spacecraft.
- His vector diagrams clearly show the gravity assist mechanism that are identical to those used later by Krafft Ehricke (1956) and much later by Minovitch (1961).
- Minovitch claims incorrectly that he is the "inventor" of the gravity assist space flight technique.. Pirquet crater on the Moon is named after him.
- He was inducted as an honorary fellow of the British Interplanetary Society in 1949, their highest honor.
- In 1976, he was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame.
- His brother, Clemens von Pirquet, became a scientist and pediatrician.
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