Baron Loránd von Eötvös (Hungarian: Vásárosnaményi Báró Eötvös Loránd or Loránd Eötvös, pronounced [ˈloraːnd ˈøtvøʃ]; July 27, 1848 - April 8, 1919), more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in the English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension.
Born in 1848, the year of the Hungarian revolution, Eötvös was the son of József Eötvös, a well-known poet, writer, and l...
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Baron Loránd von Eötvös (Hungarian: Vásárosnaményi Báró Eötvös Loránd or Loránd Eötvös, pronounced [ˈloraːnd ˈøtvøʃ]; July 27, 1848 - April 8, 1919), more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in the English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension.
Born in 1848, the year of the Hungarian revolution, Eötvös was the son of József Eötvös, a well-known poet, writer, and liberal politician, who was cabinet minister at the time, and played an important part in 19th century Hungarian intellectual and political life.
Loránd Eötvös first studied law, but soon switched to physics and went abroad to study in Heidelberg and Königsberg. After earning his doctorate, he became a university professor in Budapest and played a leading part in Hungarian science for almost half a century. He gained international recognition first by his innovative work on capillarity, then by his refined experimental methods and extensive...
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