Scientist or researcher

Theodore von Karman

1936-01-01year known, day not recorded

Caltech aerodynamics professor who led the GALCIT rocket research group and became JPL's first director; called Parsons a "delightful screwball."

In neither threadRuled on 3 September 2026 as belonging to NEITHER thread, by reading this entity's record rather than by a term search. It is on this map through early rocketry at JPL. AN EMPTY SUBJECT IS A RULING, NOT A GAP - a missing field would have meant nobody had looked.

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← Jack Parsons names a source we do not hold

GALCIT rocket group colleagues

Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)
→ NASA JPL names a source we do not hold

became its first director

JPL / Caltech history (GALCIT rocket group)
← Hsue-Shen Tsien (Qian Xuesen) names a source we do not hold

Caltech doctoral student under him, GALCIT rocket group

Jack Parsons / Agape Lodge OTO history; Pendle, Strange Angel (2005)
← Eugene Wigner nothing behind it

fellow Hungarian Martian