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

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

and

physical chemist Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic and microscopic phenomena in chemical systems in terms of the principles, practices, and concepts of physics such as motion, energy, force, time, thermodynamics, quantum chemistry, statistical mecha ...

of Rusyn ethnicity. Along with Nobel laureate

Jaroslav Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský (; 20 December 1890 – 27 March 1967) was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography. Life and work Jaroslav Heyrovský was born in Prague on December 2 ...

, 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.

References

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