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Victor G. Szebehely
Victor G. Szebehely
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degree in mechanical engineering in 1943 and his doctor of science degree in 1945 with a dissertation on the "three-body problem." (It would be almost twenty years before he would return to this most favored topic.) He was an assistant professor during the last years of the war, teaching mathematics and writing five books between 1944 and 1947: Calculusfor Engineers (two volumes with two editions)
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He was appointed manager of space dynamics research at the General Electric Company Space Sciences Laboratory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He also was a summer institute lecturer atYaTe University.
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of the Belgian Royal Academy for scientific activities in 1987, and honorary doctor degree from Eotvos University of Budapest in 1991, election to membership in the European Acaclemy in 1992, the Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Award from the University of Texas in 1992, and the General Electric Senior Research Award from the American Society of Engineering Education in 1994. Victor's major opus, Theory of Orbits, was published by the Academic Press in 1967 ant!
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I last saw Victor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at an astrodynamics specialists meeting in August 1995. ~ learned of his death from one of my Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, who had clone her undergraduate work with Victor the previous June at the University of Texas.
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