Braun (redirected from Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von)

Braun  (brôn, broun), Eva 1912-1945.

German lover and later wife of Adolf Hitler. They began living together in 1936, but the liaison was kept secret, and she was never seen in public with him. They were married hours before their double suicide on April 30, 1945.

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Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von 1912-1977.

German-born American rocket engineer, who was director of the U.S. Army team that put the first American satellite, Explorer I, into space (1958).

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Braun (German) [braun]

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1. (Biographies / Braun, Eva (1910-1945) F, German, MISC: Hitler's mistress) Eva (ˈeːfa). 1910-45, Adolf Hitler's mistress, whom he married shortly before their suicides in 1945

2. (Biographies / Braun, Karl Ferdinand (1850-1918) M, German, SCIENCE: physicist) Karl Ferdinand. 1850-1918, German physicist, who invented crystal diodes (leading to the development of crystal radio) and the oscilloscope. He shared the Nobel prize for physics (1909) with Marconi

3. (Biographies) See (Wernher) von Braun

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Noun	1.	Braun - the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) Eva Braun
	2.	Braun - 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) von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun, Wernher von Braun