Robert Goddard

American physicist and engineer

Robert Goddard was an American physicist and engineer who made significant contributions to the development of rocketry. He is widely recognized as the father of modern rocketry. Goddard was born in 1882 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He studied physics at Clark University and later worked as a physicist at the U.S. Naval Observatory. Goddard's most notable achievement was the development of the first liquid-fueled roc...