# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-hohmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:54:53.697Z

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name: "Walter Hohmann"
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description: "Walter Hohmann was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft between two different orbits, now called a Hohmann transfer orbit. He received his Ph.D. from the RWTH Aachen University in 1920."
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birthDate: "1880-03-18"
deathDate: "1945-03-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump