Hans von Ohain
Hans von Ohain, an independent co-inventor of the aviation gas turbine or jet engine, died in Melbourne, Fla., on Mar. 13. He was 86. Von Ohain, born in Germany in 1911, became interested in the concept of jet propulsion as an extra-curricular activity in 1933, while a graduate student in physics at...
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