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Loránd Eötvös
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Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Sándor Wekerle
- Preceded by
- Albin Csáky
- Succeeded by
- Gyula Wlassics
- Born
- 27 July 1848, Buda , Kingdom of Hungary
- Died
- 8 April 1919 (1919-04-08) (aged 70), Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Resting place
- Fiume Road Graveyard , Budapest
- Party
- Liberal Party
- Spouse
- Gizella Horvát
- Parents
- József Eötvös (father) Ágnes Rosty (mother)
- Alma mater
- Heidelberg University ( PhD )
- Occupation
- physicist politician
- Known for
- Eötvös effect , Eötvös experiment , Eötvös number , Eötvös rule
- Doctoral advisor
- Hermann Helmholtz
- Institutions
- University of Budapest
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Pest
- Place of death
- Budapest
- Father
- József Eötvös
- Occupation
- inventor
- Employer
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Political party
- Liberal Party
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Notable work
- Eötvös rule
- Noble title
- baron
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert Bunsen
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Eötvös Loránd.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Hungary
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- Commons category
- Loránd Eötvös
- date of death
- 1919-04-08
- date of birth
- 1848-07-27
- member of
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Eötvös Loránd
- place of burial
- Fiume Road Graveyard
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- relative
- Boldizsár Horvát
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Encyclopedic overview
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or simply Loránd Eötvös /ˈɜːrtvɔːs/; Hungarian: [ˈloːraːnd ˈøtvøʃ]; Hungarian: vásárosnaményi báró Eötvös Loránd Ágoston; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension, and the invention of the torsion pendulum.
In addition to Eötvös Loránd University and the Eötvös Loránd Institute of Geophysics in Hungary, the Eötvös crater on the Moon, the asteroid 12301 Eötvös and the mineral lorándite also bear his name, as well as a peak (Cima Eotvos) in the Dolomites.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Loránd Eötvös” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.