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Loránd Eötvös

Hungarian physicist

Died when: 70 years 255 days (848 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Loránd Eötvös

Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or Loránd Eötvös, pronounced [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 Universityand the Eötvös Loránd Institute of Geophysics in Hungary,the Eötvös crater on the Moon,the asteroid 12301 Eötvös and the mineral loránditealso bear his name, as well as peak (Cime Eotvos) in the Dolomites.


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