Joseph Petzval, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Slovak physicist, mathematician and inventor
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Place of Birth: Spišská Belá, Prešov Region, Slovakia
About Joseph Petzval
- Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 19 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics.
- He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary (in German: Zipser Bela, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia).Petzval studied and later lectured at the Institutum Geometricum (currently Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Buda (today part of Budapest).
- He headed the Institute of Practical Geometry and Hydrology/Architecture between 1841 and 1848.
- Later in life, he accepted an appointment to a chair of mathematics at the University of Vienna.
- Petzval became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1873. Petzval is considered to be one of the main founders of geometrical optics, modern photography and cinematography.
- Among his inventions are the Petzval portrait lens and opera glasses, both still in common use today.
- He is also credited with the discovery of the Laplace transform and is also known for his extensive work on aberration in optical systems.
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