Loránd Eötvös, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Loránd Eötvös

Hungarian physicist

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1848

Place of Birth: Buda, Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 08-Apr-1919

Profession: engineer, politician, physicist, mathematician, inventor, university teacher, academic

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (Hungarian: vásárosnaményi báró Eötvös Loránd Ágoston or Loránd Eötvös, pronounced ['lora?nd 'øtvø?]; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), more commonly 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. Eötvös Loránd University, the Loránd Eötvös Mathematics Competition, and the Eötvös crater on the moon are named after him.