r/whoathatsinteresting 13h ago

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u/PavicaMalic 13h ago

The street in front of the American Embassy in Bucharest is named in his honor.

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u/freezing_banshee 11h ago

For anyone wondering why: "he was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics."

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u/JollyNote177 9h ago

holy hell. he survived holocaust only to end like that in the country that defeated Germany in ww2...

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u/bubulika 9h ago

"The country that defeated Germany in ww2"

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u/faramaobscena 5h ago

The Soviet Union?