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Theodore von Kármán

A man with gray hair and glasses, dressed in a formal suit, sits against a backdrop of bookshelves, exuding an air of intellectual gravitas.

A Hungarian-American mathematician and aerospace engineer who fundamentally shaped twentieth-century aerodynamics. He was instrumental in explaining the Tacoma Narrows collapse through the lens of fluid dynamics rather than simple structural mechanics.

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