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- U.S. Commemorative Postage Stamp FDC - First Day Cover Issue
- Scott catalog# 2699 / Issue date - Aug. 31, 1992 / Denomination 29¢
- Topic - Theodore Von Karman - Aerospace Scientist
- The First Recipient of the National Medal of Science
- Postmarked - Aug. 31, 1992 / Washington, D.C.
*** Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian: Kármán Tódor; 1881-1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century. At age 81 von Kármán was the recipient of the first National Medal of Science, bestowed in a White House ceremony by President John F. Kennedy.
