Imre Bródy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Imre Bródy

Hungarian physicist

Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1891

Place of Birth: Gyula, Békés County, Hungary

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1944

Profession: engineer, physicist, inventor

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Imre Bródy (1891, Gyula, Hungary–1944, Mühldorf) was a Hungarian physicist who invented in 1930 the krypton-filled fluorescent lamps (also known as the krypton electric bulb), with fellow-Hungarian inventors Emil Theisz, Ferenc Korösy and Tivadar Millner.
He developed the technology of the production of krypton bulbs together with Michael Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi Mihály).
He was the nephew of writer Sándor Bródy.