Loránd Eötvös
Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény | |
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Portrait by Aladár Székely (1918) | |
| Minister of Religion and Education of the Kingdom of Hungary | |
| In office 10 June 1894 – 15 January 1895 | |
| Prime Minister | Sándor Wekerle |
| Preceded by | Albin Csáky |
| Succeeded by | Gyula Wlassics |
| President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | |
| In office 3 May 1889 – 5 October 1905 | |
| Preceded by | Ágoston Trefort |
| Succeeded by | Albert Berzeviczy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 July 1848 Buda, Kingdom of Hungary |
| Died | 8 April 1919 (aged 70) Budapest, Austria-Hungary |
| Resting place | Fiume Road Graveyard, Budapest |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Spouse | Gizella Horvát |
| Children | 3 |
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| Alma mater | Heidelberg University (PhD) |
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| Known for | Eötvös effect Eötvös experiment Eötvös number Eötvös rule |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Helmholtz |
| Institutions | University of Budapest |
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or simply Loránd Eötvös /ˈɜːrtvɔːs/; 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.