noun
1. the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945)
• Syn: ↑Eva Braun
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑mistress, ↑kept woman, ↑fancy woman
2. 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)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑rocket engineer, ↑rocket scientist
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/brown/; Ger. /brddown/, n.
2. Karl Ferdinand /kahrl ferr"dn and'/; Ger. /kahrddl ferdd"dee nahnt'/, 1850-1918, German physicist and specialist in wireless telegraphy: Nobel prize in physics 1909.
3. Wernher von /vair"neuhr von, verr"-, werr"-/; Ger. /verdd"neuhrdd feuhn/, 1912-77, German rocket engineer, in U.S. after 1945.
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I [broun]Eva (1910 - 45), German mistress of Adolf Hitler. Braun and Hitler are thought to have married during the fall of Berlin, shortly before committing suicide together in the air-raid shelter of his Berlin headquarters
II [broun]
Karl Ferdinand (1850 - 1918), German physicist. He invented the coupled system of radio transmission and the Braun tube (forerunner of the cathode-ray tube), in which a beam of electrons could be deflected. Nobel Prize for Physics (1909, shared with Guglielmo Marconi)
III [brôn; broun]
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von (1912 - 77), U.S. rocket engineer; born in Germany. He led the development of the V-2 rockets used by Germany during World War II. After the war he moved to the U.S., where he worked in the U.S. space program
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braun(e, braunfalneUseful english dictionary. 2012.