Victor Szebehely
Victor G. Szebehely (August 21, 1921 – September 13, 1997) was a key figure in the development and success of the Apollo program.
In 1956, a dimensionless number used in time-dependent unsteady flows was named "Szebehely's number," (In the September and October 1977 issues of the journal Celestial Mechanics, volume 16, an equation used to determine the gravitational potential of the Earth, planets, satellites, and galaxies was named "Szebehely's equation").
He worked with
His first book, The Theory of Orbits, is an important work in
.He was knighted by
History
Szebehely was born in Budapest, Hungary. His father was an engineer and he started to study in that field, but switched later to physics. In 1944 he graduated as an engineer from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Because of the threatening communist take over he went to the
Szebehely authored "Hydrodynamics of Slamming Ships" as David Taylor Model Basin Report 823 in 1952 and co-authored "Ship Slamming in Head Seas" as DTMB Report 913 in 1955.
He was the author of several books.
In 1978 he received the very first
He died in Austin, Texas at age 76.[1]
References
- ^ a b Ford Burkhart (28 September 1997). "Victor Szebehely, 76, Pioneer In Field of Orbital Mechanics". The New York Times. p. 141. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
External links
- "In Memoriam - Victor G. Szebehely", at the University of Texas at Austin
- Interview with Victor G. Szebehely, July 20, 1988. University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collection, UA 15.01, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.
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