188 1 may1kloc-0/day, von Carmen was born in Budapest. His father is a famous professor of education at the historic Peter Pai smark University in Budapest. His mother was born in a scholarly family, and there was a famous mathematician in16th century. At the age of six, Von Carmen could give the answer by thinking about the multiplication of five digits. His father is worried that he has extraordinary computing ability, and he is afraid that he will become a deformed man in the future. Soon, with his father's intervention, von Carmen cut all kinds of math subjects and didn't start studying math again until he was a teenager. His father asked him to read geography, history and poetry instead of doing math exercises, and he has always been grateful to his father. Because he advocated humanistic civilization all his life, this is inseparable from his father's letting him get rid of math games from an early age.
Father's greatest help and cultivation to Von Carmen is to stimulate his curiosity about knowledge. He often asks his father some religious questions. He never saw any contradiction between science and religion, which may be related to discussing religious issues with his father in his early years.
1898 1 1 month, 16-year-old von Carmen entered the Royal Joseph University. In the early days of college, Von Carmen was able to think behind closed doors, often indulging in colorful scientific thinking and leaving all other ideas behind. When he has a scientific problem in his mind and is eager to solve it, he will work day and night like a woman who takes care of children. Never get up from your seat until you have a clear idea to solve the problem.
His independent thinking ability was mainly learned from Professor Donna Banji in college, and his first paper was completed under the guidance of Teacher Banji. In this paper, the vibration and noise of intake and exhaust valves, a common fault of engine, are analyzed. After the first paper was published, he began to find himself quite talented in scientific theory. Winning the prize in the math contest, solving the difficult problems, the praise of the school teachers and the expectations of his family all made him realize that engaging in scientific theory and logical thinking is his real career. Since then, he has made up his mind to be a real scientist, a person who has made contributions to human knowledge and understanding of nature. 1902, von Carmen graduated from university with excellent results, and then joined the Austro-Hungarian army. Demobilized a year later, he went to Budapest University of Technology as a teaching assistant in Banji.
1906, von Carmen came to the University of G? ttingen for further study, where the elegant academic atmosphere fascinated him. At first, he studied material mechanics with Professor Plantel, the father of modern aerodynamics, and cooperated with German physicist Born to establish a crystal atomic structure model. Influenced by Prandtl Hilbert Klein and Runge, he laid a solid foundation in the University of G? ttingen. Two years later, he went to Paris University to study. In Paris, once, he accompanied his girlfriend to watch the first 2 km flight show in Europe. The humble early airplanes aroused his great interest, so he began to study aerodynamics carefully. 1In the autumn of 908, von Carmen returned to the University of G? ttingen and worked as an extra lecturer for three years. In the process of applying wind tunnel to solve the problem of fluid motion, his interest in wind tunnel is increasing day by day. In those exciting years, aviation exploration and major scientific discoveries in the laboratory went hand in hand, and his attention gradually shifted to aviation science.
After a series of careful research and experiments, von Carmen published the most famous paper in his life in 19 1 1, clarifying the third and last source of resistance, which is called contour resistance. He found that when the wall adhesion between the airflow and the object fails and the wake behind the object is chaotic, surface resistance will occur. Later, this great discovery was named "Carmen Vortex". It has become the theoretical basis for the design of airplanes, ships and racing cars.
After the outbreak of World War I, Von Carmen was drafted into the army. During World War II, he designed and manufactured the world's earliest tethered helicopter. After the war, he returned to Germany and became an aviation professor at Aachen Institute of Technology. In the 1920s, Von Carmen often gave speeches all over the world. He has been to the United States, the Soviet Union and Japan, and gave lectures in China twice. 1930, he published a paper on "theory of turbulence". Turbulence law has a greater impact on education. Because the principle of turbulent motion is required to be taught in universities, engineers from generation to generation increasingly believe that any complex natural phenomenon can be solved and explained by mathematics. In von Carmen's own words: "The concept of turbulence is not profound today, but for me, it is a part of the great harmony of the universe. This great harmony dominates all the movements of the universe behind it. "
1930, Nazi conspiracy in Germany forced him to leave Germany for the United States. Since then, he has been teaching at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and has been naturalized as an American citizen. Before, during and after World War II, he racked his brains for the construction of the US Air Force. The U.S. Air Force directly benefited from von Carmen's foresight. Driven by his wisdom and personality, the US Air Force has grown into a key combat force with leading scientific research.
His influence on human life today is greater than that of any contemporary scientist or engineer. It is those links he carefully created that organically link the scientific achievements of human conquest of the sky into a long chain. Thanks to his efforts, jets with a speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour, missiles with a range of 1200 kilometers and interstellar rockets have become a reality today.
Von Carmen is a veritable scientific generalist, and he has played an undisputed genius role in many aspects. Some of the most brilliant theories and concepts in the aerospace field are named after him, and there is also a crater named von Carmen on the moon. In addition to theoretical research, significant milestones in aviation history, such as led zeppelin, wind tunnel, glider and rocket, can be said that the success of all actual and simulated flights in this century is closely related to him. In his later years, he helped establish Aerojet, the world's largest rocket manufacturer, and guided the company's development direction. In addition, he also ran around and set up a NATO aviation advisory group.
As the leader of the Institute of Aeronautics of Aachen Institute of Technology in Germany and Guggenheim Aviation Laboratory of California Institute of Technology in the United States, von Carmen led two generations of scientists and engineers into the pioneer field of science and technology, laying a solid scientific foundation for aviation and aerospace engineering. As a teacher, his lectures are clear and imaginative, and his teaching effect is excellent. Someone once compared him with Leonardo da Vinci, a Renaissance scientist, and thought that Leonardo da Vinci created many parts of novels, while von Carmen trained a large number of outstanding talents. His students are all over five continents, and people call them "Carmen Coban". Among them are scientists and engineers, who shoulder the leadership of outer space technology in the world today.
Around the world, Von Carmen likes to associate with rich people, celebrities and powerful people, but he is by no means a snob. He will not hesitate to introduce a gardener to an outstanding general or scientist and treat him equally. In addition to some relaxing parties, Von Carmen has friendly contacts with several world-famous great scientists. He and Einstein had many long talks, most of which were about the significance of science to mankind. Von Carmen said that in Einstein, he found a sincere and kind soul. He believed that all the qualities Einstein possessed were exactly what he had been pursuing all his life on the road of exploring nature.
1February, 963 18 in the morning, in recognition of von Carmen's unparalleled outstanding contribution to science, technology and education, President Kennedy awarded him the first American Science Medal. According to the plan, President Kennedy will personally present the medal to Von Carmen. When the president and his entourage arrived, friends from all over the world flocked to the award venue. Von Carmen, 8 1 year-old, suffered from arthritis in his foot, staggered to the front of the steps and suddenly stopped, as if the pain was unbearable. At this time, President Kennedy quickly caught up with him and held him. Von Carmen looked up at the young president and gently pushed his hand away. "Mr. President," he said with a smile, "when you go downhill, you don't need a hand. You only need one hand when you climb up. "
Just over two months after winning the prize,1May 7, 963, von Carmen died in Aachen. The funeral procession included China, Japanese, Europeans and Jews. There are Muslims and Christians; There are military generals and well-known scientists; And his close friends and assistants.