András Lévai (22 December 1908 - 23 April 2003) was a Hungarian scientist in the field of
electrical engineering,
professor
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, member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Biography
He was born in 1908 in
Oravița
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, Romania.
He graduated from the Technical College in
Graz in 1926 and continued his education at the
Technical College of Vienna, from which he graduated in 1931. After graduation, from 1932 to 1939, he worked as the chief engineer of the Titan-Nedrag-Klan metallurgical plant, and from 1939 to 1940, as an engineer for refining in
Ploiești
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.
In 1940, he immigrated from Romania to
Technical University of Budapest
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, from 1976 to 1978 he was a professor at the university, from 1969 to 1972, he was Deputy President of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BME). In the mid-1970s he taught in the Soviet Union to the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. From 1999 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the Technical University.
He was engaged in research on the practical use of various systems of
power plants
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Many pow ...
, was engaged in the modernization of existing in the country power plants, increasing their efficiency, eliminating pollution by power plants of the environment. Since the mid-1950s he studied the issues of locating
nuclear power plants in the country. In 1982, with his direct participation, the first Hungarian nuclear power plant, the
Paks Nuclear Power Plant
The Paks Nuclear Power Plant ( hu, Paksi atomerőmű), located from the small town of Paks, central Hungary, is the first and only operating nuclear power station in Hungary. In 2019, its four reactors produced more than 50% of Hungary's ele ...
, was put into operation.
Literature
* Gazdaságossági kérdések egységes megítélésének szempontjai erőművek tervezésénél. Budapest: Mérnöki Továbbképző Intézet. 1951.
* Hőerőművek I–II. Budapest: Jegyzetsokszorosító. 1951.
* Atomerőművek. Budapest: Felsőoktatási Jegyzetellátó. 1956.
* Elméleti reaktortechnika I–III. Budapest: Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem. 1960–1963.
* Hőerőművek. Budapest: Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem. 1961.
* Reaktorszerkezetek. Budapest: Országos Atomenergia Bizottság. 1961.
* Atomtechnika I–IV. Budapest: Tankönyvkiadó. 1964.
* Maschinentechnische Einrichtungen der Wärmekraftwerke I–II. Leipzig: Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie. 1966–1968.
References
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People from Oravița
Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Hungarian scientists
TU Wien alumni
1908 births
2003 deaths