Eötvös is an old spelling of the
Hungarian word ötvös, meaning "
gold- and
silversmith".
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Family name
Eötvös can refer to one of several Hungarian people:
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Ignác Eötvös (1763–1838), Hungarian politician
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József Eötvös (1813–1871), Hungarian statesman and author
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Loránd Eötvös (1848–1919), Hungarian physicist
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Zoltán Eötvös (1891–1936), Hungarian speed skater
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Péter Eötvös (1944–2024), Hungarian composer and conductor
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József Eötvös (musician) (born 1962) Hungarian guitar player
Ötvös
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Fülöp Ö. Beck (; 1873–1945), Hungarian sculptor, medal maker
Otvos
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A. Dorian Otvos (1893–1945), American writer and composer
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Jim Otvos, academician
Other
Eötvös can also refers to several concepts and a place, all named for Loránd Eötvös:
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eotvos (unit), a unit of gravitational gradient
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Eötvös effect
The Eötvös effect is the change in measured Earth's gravity caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity. When moving eastbound, the object's angular velocity is increased (in addition to Earth ...
, a concept in geodesy
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Eötvös experiment
The Eötvös experiment was a physics experiment that measured the correlation between inertial mass and gravitational mass, demonstrating that the two were one and the same, something that had long been suspected but never demonstrated with the ...
, an experiment determining the correlation between gravitational and inertial mass
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Eötvös number, a concept in fluid dynamics
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Eötvös (crater) on the Moon
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Eötvös rule for predicting surface tension dependent on temperature
See also
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List of titled noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary
References
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Hungarian words and phrases
Hungarian-language surnames