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Widen Tabakoff was born in in Stakevtsi, near Belogradchik, Bulgaria.!
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Widen Tabakoff, a Revolutionary of CEAS Aerospace Engineering, Passes Away at 95
Born in Bulgaria and educated in Germany, Widen Tabakoff first visited Cincinnati in 1957 after being invited by the U.S. Army to join Werner von Brauns world-renowned team of rocket scientists.
This team would develop Saturn 5 complex that would send Apollo 11 to the moon.
In 1958, while on duty with the U.S. Army, Tabakoff worked alongside the U.S. Army Engineering Division Laboratory testing materials for use in the nozzle of the Saturn V complex, when he first became acquainted with University of Cincinnati faculty.
Professor Ray Murray, the acting department head for aerospace, jumped at the opportunity to incorporate Tabakoffs wealth of knowledge into the university by offering him a position. He full-heartedly accepted and began to lay the groundwork for why the aerospace department is what it is today.
In the midst of supporting a great number of graduate students research, Tabakoff create