Walter Thiel (3 March 1910 to 17 August 1943) was a German chemist and rocket scientist who supplied the decisive ideas for the engine of the A4 rocket, better known as the V-2. Born in Wroclaw, he studied chemistry at the technical college there and earned his doctorate summa cum laude in 1934. He then moved from fundamental research to the army rocket testing ground at Kummersdorf, where Walter Dornberger asked him in 1936 to take charge of every question concerning the engine. His work on shortening the combustion chamber, redesigning the injection nozzle and testing fuel mixtures made the large liquid-fuel engine practical. After the move to Peenemuende in 1940 he served as deputy director of the development organization under Wernher von Braun, and the Wikipedia article credits his research with enabling rockets to head towards space.
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Walter Thiel (3 March 1910 – 17 August 1943) was a German rocket scientist.
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Walter Thiel (3 March 1910-17 August 1943) was a German rocket scientist.
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After transferring from Kummersdorf to the Peenemünde Army Research Center in the summer of 1940, Thiel became deputy director of the Peenemünde HVP Organization under von Braun.
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