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Who Was F. J. Malina? - An Artist, A Scientist, An Engineer?
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Vít Havránek - 2009-03-24
All his life, Frank Joseph Malina (1912-1981) divided his activities between important duties in the aeronautics sector and an international career as an artist. Reading Jules Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon, which tells of an inhabited rocket to the moon, at the age of twelve determined his orientation towards the last frontier still unconquered by man: outer space. His parents, Frank Malina and Caroline Marek, musicians, hope to see their son turn towards and artistic career. However, after beginning his university studies at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, he entered Caltech (California Institute of Technology), where he obtained a doctorate in aeronautics in 1940, under the direction of mathematician Theodore Von Karman.
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