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Zoltán Lajos Bay

1900 - 1992

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Zoltán Lajos Bay (July 24, 1900 in Gyulavári – October 4, 1992 in Washington, D.C.) was a Hungarian physicist, professor, and engineer who developed technologies, including tungsten lamps and microwave devices. He was the leader of the second group to observe radar echoes from the Moon (Moonbounce). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zoltán Lajos Bay has received more than 33,144 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Zoltán Lajos Bay is the 644th most popular physicist (down from 604th in 2019), the 524th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 437th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Hungarian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Zoltán Lajos Bay ranks 644 out of 717Before him are Lee Smolin, Paul Peter Ewald, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Edward Condon, Leonid Sedov, and Mark Oliphant. After him are César Lattes, Nikolay Umov, Tom Kibble, Bruno Zumino, Shoichi Sakata, and Leona Woods.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Zoltán Lajos Bay ranks 233Before him are Alfredo Dinale, Ludovico Bidoglio, Ernie Pyle, Stamatios Nikolopoulos, Alfredo Porzio, and Alan Helffrich. After him are Roman Steinberg, Christian Matras, Simon Janashia, Fernando Quiroga Palacios, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, and Panagiotis Pavlidis. Among people deceased in 1992, Zoltán Lajos Bay ranks 191Before him are Vladas Mikėnas, William Schuman, André Vandewyer, Arvo Ylppö, Andor Földes, and George Adams. After him are Brenda Marshall, Luigi Marchisio, Jan Flinterman, Luis Alcoriza, Per Olof Sundman, and Sabiha Bengütaş.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Zoltán Lajos Bay ranks 524 out of 866Before him are Ödön Zombori (1906), Andor Földes (1913), József Szájer (1961), Edith Farkas (1921), Emília Rotter (1906), and Dezső Földes (1880). After him are Kolos Ferenc Vaszary (1832), József Turay (1905), Júlia Szendrey (1828), Gyula Török (1938), Angéla Németh (1946), and László Szollás (1907).

Among PHYSICISTS In Hungary

Among physicists born in Hungary, Zoltán Lajos Bay ranks 8Before him are Dennis Gabor (1900), Edward Teller (1908), Leo Szilard (1898), Georg von Békésy (1899), Arpad Elo (1903), and Nicholas Kurti (1908). After him are Valentine Telegdi (1922) and Egon Orowan (1902).