Dionýz Ilkovič (18 January 1907 – 3 August 1980) was a Czechoslovak

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and

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ethnicity. Along with Nobel laureate

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, he helped to establish theoretical basis of

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. In this field, he is the author of an important result, the Ilkovic's equation. He was also one of the leading figures in modern university-level

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education in Slovakia.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ilkovic, Dionyz 1907 births 1980 deaths Charles University alumni Academic staff of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Czechoslovak physicists