András Lévai (22 December 1908 - 23 April 2003) was a Hungarian scientist in the field of

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, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Biography

He was born in 1908 in

Oravița Oravița (; ; ; ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Oravica, separator=/, Оравица) is a town in the Banat region of Romania, in Caraș-Severin County, with a population of 9,346 in 2021. Its theater is a fully functional scaled down version of the old Burgth ...

, Romania. He graduated from the Technical College in

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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

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. In 1940, he immigrated from Romania to Technical University of Budapest, 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, 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

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s in the country. In 1982, with his direct participation, the first Hungarian nuclear power plant, the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Levai, Andras People from Oravița Academic staff of Moscow Power Engineering Institute Hungarian scientists TU Wien alumni 1908 births 2003 deaths