AbstractIrene Bredt (b.1911 at Bonn) obtained her Doctorate in Physics in 1937; in the same year she became a scientific researcher at the German Research Center for Aviation at Trauen, led by Prof. Dr. Eugen Sänger. Soon, the young but efficient Dr. Irene Bredt became the first assistant of Dr. Sänger, who married her (1951). During 1973–1978, Dr. Bredt was in correspondence with Prof. Dr. Nikolae–Florin Zaganescu and helped him to familiarize the Romanian readers with Prof. Sänger's life and achievements. As for Dr. Bredt's life, she specified three main periods of her activity: 1937–1942, when she was researcher in charge of thermodynamic problems of liquid-fuelled rocket engines at Trauen 1942–1945, when she was Senior Researcher in charge of Ramjet in flight performances at Ainring, and also coauthored the Top Secret Technical report entitled ‘A Rocket Engine for a Long-Range Bomber’, which was finished in 1941 but edited only in 1944 the post world war II period, when she was Scientific Advisor or Director at various civil and military research institutes, universities, etc. Dr. Irene Sänger-Bredt helped her husband to develop many scientific theories like Ramjet thermodynamic theory, and photon rocket theory and also in establishing IAF and IAA. In 1970, Dr. Irene Sänger-Bredt was honored with ‘Hermann Oberth Gold Medal’ for her impressive scientific activity.


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    Title :

    Dr. Irene Sänger-Bredt, a life for astronautics


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 55 , 11 ; 889-894


    Publication date :

    2004-03-09


    Size :

    6 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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