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Loránd Eötvös

1848 - 1919

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Loránd Eötvös has received more than 188,387 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Loránd Eötvös is the 58th most popular engineer (up from 71st in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 145th 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 58 out of 389. Before him are Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Charles George Gordon, Alexander Wienerberger, Bjarne Stroustrup, Viktor Belenko, and Masaru Ibuka. After him are Henry Gantt, Immanuel Nobel, Banū Mūsā, Valentin Glushko, Kurt Gerstein, and Nikolay Zhukovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Loránd Eötvös ranks 29. Before him are Zinovy Rozhestvensky, Milena Vukotić, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Victor Noir, Johann Palisa, and Guido von List. After him are Hristo Botev, Hermann Alexander Diels, Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, and Thomas Lipton. Among people deceased in 1919, Loránd Eötvös ranks 31. Before him are Terauchi Masatake, Leonid Andreyev, Habibullah Khan, Prince John of the United Kingdom, Guido von List, and Madam C. J. Walker. After him are Henry Gantt, Sophia Tolstaya, Franz Mehring, Georg von Hertling, Princess Marie Isabelle of Orléans, and Edward Charles Pickering.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Loránd Eötvös ranks 129 out of 1,077. Before him are Péter Medgyessy (1942), Piali Pasha (1515), Gyula Horn (1932), George II Rákóczi (1621), Ladislaus Hunyadi (1431), and Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1831). After him are Ephraim Kishon (1924), Miklós Rózsa (1907), Max Nordau (1849), André Kertész (1894), Peter Delyan (1009), and Imi Lichtenfeld (1910).

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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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