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Wernher von Braun was a pioneering scientist in the field of rocketry. He was part of both Nazi Germany's missile program and America's space program.
He was born in Wirsitz, Germany, on March 23, 1912, into an upper-class family.
His father served as Minister of Agriculture in the Weimar Republic, and his older brother later served in the West German Government.
An early fan of science fiction stories of space travel, von Braun struggled early in school but found a new desire to excel, especially in mathematics and physics, after reading the writings of Hermann Oberth, who is considered to be the father of German rocketry.
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He went on to work with Oberth at the German Society for Space Travel, while studying at the Berlin Institute of Technology. Von Braun earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from that school and then earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Berlin, in 1934.
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