VON BRAUN

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• VON BRAUN (noun)
  The noun VON BRAUN has 1 sense:

1. United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)

  Familiarity information: VON BRAUN used as a noun is very rare.

• VON BRAUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Braun; von Braun; Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun; Wernher von Braun

Instance hypernyms:

rocket engineer; rocket scientist (an engineer who builds and tests rockets)