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Robert Goddard

Robert GoddardAKA Robert Hutchings Goddard

Born: 5-Oct-1882
Birthplace: Worcester, MA
Died: 10-Aug-1945
Location of death: Baltimore, MD
Cause of death: Cancer - Throat
Remains: Buried, Hope Cemetery, Worcester, MA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Father of modern rocketry

Wife: Esther Christine Kisk (m. 21-Jun-1924, until his death)

    University: BS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1908)
    University: AM, Clark University, Worcester (1910)
    University: PhD, Clark University, Worcester (1911)

    National Inventors Hall of Fame
    Guggenheim Fellowship

Is the subject of books:
This High Man: The Life of Robert H. Goddard, 1963, BY: Milton Lehman

Author of books:
A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes (1919)



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