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Loránd Eötvös

1848 - 1919

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Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or simply Loránd Eötvös ; Hungarian: [ˈloraːnd 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Loránd Eötvös is the 40th most popular engineer (up from 58th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 129th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Engineer.

Loránd eötvös is most famous for his discovery of the law of the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Loránd Eötvös ranks 40 out of 389. Before him are Lennart Torstensson, Theodore von Kármán, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Hertha Ayrton, Anthony Fokker, and Emil Škoda. After him are Ildefons Cerdà, Hugo Junkers, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Villard de Honnecourt, Howard H. Aiken, and Sergey Ilyushin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Loránd Eötvös ranks 22. Before him are Aleksey Kuropatkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Wilhelm Windelband, Stepan Makarov, and Wyatt Earp. After him are Carl Wernicke, William II of Württemberg, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Milena Vukotić, Zinovy Rozhestvensky, and Pierre De Geyter. Among people deceased in 1919, Loránd Eötvös ranks 24. Before him are Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Yakov Sverdlov, Ismail Qemali, Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, L. Frank Baum, and Johannes Rydberg. After him are Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Kurt Eisner, Edward Charles Pickering, Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, Leonid Andreyev, and Sophia Tolstaya.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Loránd Eötvös ranks 105 out of 1,077. Before him are Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917), Zoltán Czibor (1929), John G. Kemeny (1926), Samuel Aba (990), George Pólya (1887), and Pál Teleki (1879). After him are Peter Lax (1926), György Cziffra (1921), Stephen IV of Hungary (1133), László Sólyom (1942), Ágnes Heller (1929), and Taksony of Hungary (931).

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Among ENGINEERS In Hungary

Among engineers born in Hungary, Loránd Eötvös ranks 2. Before him are Theodore von Kármán (1881).

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