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On 27 July 1848, Baron Loránd Eötvös, the researcher of gravitational fields and the first great Hungarian cultivator of systematic experimental.

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A Prominent Figure of Physics: Loránd Eötvös Was Born 175 Years Ago

The Statue of Eötvös Loránd in the Garden of Chestnuts in Budapest.

On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the birth of Loránd Eötvös, a memorial tour will be organized in Budapest on Thursday.

The family intended the son of the writer and politician, Baron József Eötvös, to become a lawyer, but Loránd was much more attracted to the natural sciences. From 1867, he studied chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg. In 1871, he became an assistant professor, and afterwards the professor of experimental physics and director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Pest.

Loránd Eötvös. Photo via Wikipedia

His scientific work was mainly focused on gravity and geomagnetism, his best-known achievement being the construction of a very precise and sensitive torsion balance.

Another of his major discoveries and demonstrations is known as the Eötvös effect, stating that a body moving eastwards on the surface of the Earth is subject to a greater centrifugal force than a body

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Biography

Loránd Eötvös is also known by the German version of Loránd, namely Roland. Had he only published in Hungarian, Eötvös would have achieved far less in the way of an international reputation so he published his most important results in German as well as Hungarian. To international scientists, therefore, he is known by the name which appeared on these German papers, namely Roland, Baron Eötvös. His full title is, however, far more grand: in Hungarian Vásárosnaményi Báro Eötvös Loránd; in English Roland, Baron Eötvös of Vásárosnaményi. Looking at a present day map of Hungary, Vásárosnaményi is close to its eastern border with Ukraine.

Loránd's mother was Agnes Rosty. His father was József, Baron Eötvös, a novelist, essayist, educator, and statesman, whose life and writings were devoted to the creation of a modern Hungarian literature and to the establishment of a modern democratic Hungary. He was a friend of Franz Liszt, the famous pianist and composer. At the time of Loránd's birth his father was minister of education in the revolutionary government of 1848, but aft

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Loránd Eötvös

Hungarian physicist (1848–1919)

The native form of this personal name is Eötvös Loránd. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or simply Loránd Eötvös; Hungarian:[ˈloraːndˈøtvøʃ]; Hungarian: vásárosnaményi báró Eötvös Loránd Ágoston; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature,^[2] 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^[3] and the Eötvös Loránd Institute of Geophysics in Hungary, the Eötvös crater on the Moon,^[4] the asteroid 12301 Eötvös and the mineral lorándite also bear his name, as well as a peak (Cima Eotvos) in the Dolomites.

Life

Born in 1848, the year of the Hungarian revolution, Eötvös was the son of the BaronJózsef Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (1813–1871), a well-known poet, writer, and liberal politician, who was cabinet minister at th