Friedwardt Winterberg

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Friedwardt Winterberg
Born	(1929-06-12) June 12, 1929 (age 94) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	American, previously German
Alma mater	Max Planck Institute
Known for	General relativity Nuclear rocket propulsion GPS
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Doctoral advisor	Werner Heisenberg

Friedwardt Winterberg (born June 12, 1929) is a German-American theoretical physicist and was a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas. His work in nuclear rocket propulsion earned him the 1979 Hermann Oberth Gold Medal of the Wernher von Braun International Space Flight Foundation^[1][2][3] and a 1981 citation by the Nevada Legislature.^[3][4] He is also an honorary member of the German Aerospace Society Lilienthal-Oberth.