Friedrich Zander
Friedrich Arturowitsch Zander (Russian Фридрих Артурович Цандер; * 11 Augustjul / August 23 1887greg in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, .. † March 28, 1933 in Kislovodsk, USSR ) was a Baltic German - Soviet scholar, inventor and rocket builders. He created the jet engines OR-1 and OR -2 and developed the project of the rocket GIRD -X.
In English his name is often transcribed as Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander.
Life
Zander was born in Riga, the son of a Baltic German family. His father Arthur was a doctor. Zander was trained as an engineer and rose up early acquaintance with the ideas of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, as he worked on the editorial staff of the magazine, which received some documents from Ziolkowski, but do not publish. A year after the release of Hermann Oberth's book " The Rocket into Interplanetary Space ", which had also read Zander, Zander published in 1924 a book on the work of Ziolkowski to also make this known. Together with Tsiolkovsky and Yuri Kondratjuk founded Zander also still 1924, the Society for the Study of interplanetary travel. During this time he also suggested an awning ( photon pulses) as a drive.
In 1931, Zander was a founding member of GIRD (Group for the Study of reactive drives, Russian Группа изучения реактивного движения ( ГИРД ) ) in Moscow. The group tried to build liquid rocket for the Soviet regime. The tenth attempt, GIRD -X, finally flew successfully on 25 November 1933. Zander designed the rocket though, saw the start but no more because it six months earlier, in March 1933, died of typhoid fever.
According to him, the moon crater Tsander is named.
In 2012, the postal administrations of Latvia and Russia each filed out a commemorative stamp in honor of walleye. You have the numbers 840 or 1852 in the Michel catalog.
Publications
- Фридрих Артурович Цандер: Из научного наследия. Nauka, Moscow, 1967 ( Russian). (English translation by NASA: " From a scientific heritage" ]
- Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander: Selected Papers. Zinatne, Riga 1977.