György Szigeti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

György Szigeti

Hungarian physicist

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1905

Place of Birth: Szentes, Csongrád County, Hungary

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1978

Profession: physicist, inventor, electrical engineer

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

György Szigeti (29 January 1905 – 27 November 1978), also known as Gyorgy Szigeti, was a Hungarian physicist and engineer who developed tungsten lamps. In 1923 at Tungsram Ltd., a research laboratory was established for improving light sources, mainly electric bulbs.
The head of that laboratory was Ignácz Pfeiffer (1867-1941), whose research staff included Szigeti, along with Zoltán Bay (1900-1992), Tivadar Millner, Imre Bródy (1891-1944), Erno Winter (1897-1971), and others.Szigeti worked together with Zoltán Bay on metal-vapor lamps and fluorescent light sources.
They received a U.S.
patent on "electroluminescent light sources" that were made of silicon carbide; these light sources were the ancestors of light-emitting diodes (LEDs).