Ernő Wilczek (sometimes spelt Vilczek; 6 May 1883 in
Kaposvár
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– 13 May 1950 in
Budapest
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) was a Hungarian engineer. He graduated from the
Budapest University of Art and Design
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in 1905 and then worked for several companies, in France and England, as a distributor of
electric generator
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s. From 1910 to 1933, he worked at the
Ganz Works
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The original Ganz Works or Ganz ( or , ''Ganz companies'', formerly ...
, first as a machine engineer, and later as the head of the engineering department. He was an associate of
Titus Bláthy. In 1920, he won the
Zipernowsky jubilee award for his scientific and technical activities. He specialized in standardization. From 1938 he was chairman of the Standards Committee and from 1949 he was deputy director of the Hungarian Standards Institute. He was editor of the journal Elektrotechnika from 1919 and later became editor-in-chief. His studies were published in domestic and foreign journals.
Publications
* Data for the theory of DC turbine generators, Budapest, 1916
* Electricity Pocketbook, Budapest, 1936
* Second edition of the Electricity Manual by Mihály Gohér and András Lenkei, Budapest, 1943
References
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1883 births
1950 deaths
20th-century Hungarian engineers