Boris Rauschenbach
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Boris Viktorovich Rauschenbach (Russian language: Борис Викторович Раушенбах) (January 18, 1915, Petrograd - March 17, 2001, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet physicist, Russian rocket engineer and Academician.
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While a student in St. Petersburg in the 1930s, he carried out research at the famous Gas Dynamics Laboratory. In 1937, having graduated from the Institute of Aviation, he joined the Moscow Scientific Rocket Research Institute where he began work with Sergei Korolev. Boris Rauschenbach headed one of the Departments at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology for over 20 years.
Asteroid 4237 Raushenbakh is named after him.