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Karl Heinrich Emil Becker

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German general (1879-1940)

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Karl Heinrich Emil Becker was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development.

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1940Goethe Medal for Art and Science
1937Grashof Commemorative Medal
honorary doctorate

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Karl Heinrich Emil Becker was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. He was the head of the Army Ordnance Office, Senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, first president of the Reich Research Council, the first general officer to be a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, as well as being a professor at both the University of Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin.

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deceased
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Lived 1879 to 1940 · aged 60
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