Guido from Pirquet
Guido Freiherr von Pirquet (born March 30, 1880 in Hirschstetten near Vienna, † April 17, 1966 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pioneer of rocket technology . He published several flight path calculations for space missions.
In contrast to his six-year-old brother, who later became a university professor of paediatrics, Clemens von Pirquet , Guido von Pirquet decided on a technical course and studied mechanical engineering in Vienna and Graz . He was a member of the Association for Space Travel and in 1926 one of the co-founders of the Scientific Society for Height Research in Vienna. In 1928 he published his calculations on the trajectories for space probes to Venus , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn . The flight path to Venus was exactly realized in 1961. Also in 1928 he carried out calculations for the dimensioning of a rocket for a manned flight to Mars. He came to the conclusion that a flight from the earth's surface is an unrealizable expense and that a manned space station in orbit around the earth is necessary as a basis for this project. The lunar crater Pirquet is named after him.
Works
- Interplanetary routes. In: The rocket. Journal of the Association for Space Travel. 1928.
- Contributions to Willy Ley (Ed.): The possibility of space travel. Generally understandable contributions to the space problem. Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig 1928
literature
- Franz Sykora: Guido von Pirquet: Austrian pioneer of astronautics. In: NASA, Washington Essays on the History of Rocketry and Astronautics. Volume 1, 1977, pp. 140-155 abstract
Web links
- ESA: Short biography of Guido von Pirquet
- Entry on Guido von Pirquet in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry about Guido Peter Pirquet in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .
- Guido von Pirquet at The International Space Hall of Fame The New Mexico Museum of Space History
- Austrian Space and Rocket Pioneers: Painting by GB German and short biography in English by B. Besser about Guido von Pirquet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Austria in Space: Roots to the 16th Century. December 10, 2010, accessed July 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Pirquet on Moon. In: Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Retrieved July 21, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pirquet, Guido of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pirquet, Guido Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian pioneer of rocket technology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hirschstetten |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1966 |
| Place of death | Vienna |