Eötvös is an old spelling of the
Hungarian word ötvös, meaning "
gold- and
silversmith
A silversmith is a metalworker who crafts objects from silver. The terms ''silversmith'' and ''goldsmith'' are not exact synonyms, as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are (or were, at least) largely the same but differed in that t ...
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Family name
Eötvös can refer to one of several Hungarian people:
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Ignác Eötvös
Ignác, also sometimes spelled Ignac in English, is the Czech, Slovak and Hungarian version of the name Ignatius.
Ignac is also a surname, among the most common surnames in the Međimurje County of Croatia.
Notable people with this name include:
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(1763–1838), Hungarian politician
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József Eötvös
Baron József Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (pronunciation: jɔ:ʒef 'øtvøʃ dɛ 'va:ʃa:rɔʃnɒme:ɲ 3 September 1813 – 2 February 1871) was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignác baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and ...
(1813–1871), Hungarian statesman and author
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Loránd Eötvös
Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény (or simply Loránd Eötvös ; ; ; 27 July 1848 – 8 April 1919), also called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on ...
(1848–1919), Hungarian physicist
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Zoltán Eötvös
Zoltán Eötvös (5 March 1891 – 21 October 1936) was a Hungarian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics. He was born in Tokaj, in the Zemplén County of the Kingdom of Hungary and died in Budapest.
Speedskating career
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(1891–1936), Hungarian speed skater
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Péter Eötvös
Péter Eötvös (, ; 2 January 194424 March 2024) was a Hungarian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
After studies of composition in Budapest and Cologne, Eötvös composed film music in Hungary from 1962. He played with the Stockhaus ...
(1944–2024), Hungarian composer and conductor
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József Eötvös (musician)
József Eötvös (born 1962, Pécs) is a classical guitarist, from Pécs, Hungary. Eötvös studied with Roland Zimmer and Franz Just at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar. He won several international competitions between 1985 and 19 ...
(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
James D. Otvos is an academic/researcher/entrepreneur in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy who has pioneered and published, since the later 1970s, extensive research on the roles of the various lipoproteins in cardiovascular disease and led t ...
, academician
Other
Eötvös can also refers to several concepts and a place, all named for Loránd Eötvös:
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eotvos (unit)
The eotvos is a unit of acceleration divided by distance that was used in conjunction with the older centimetre–gram–second system of units (cgs). The eotvos is defined as 10−9 galileos per centimetre. The symbol of the eotvos unit is ...
, 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
In fluid dynamics the Eötvös number (Eo), also called the Bond number (Bo), is a dimensionless number
measuring the importance of gravitational forces compared to surface tension forces for the movement of liquid front. Alongside the capillary ...
, a concept in fluid dynamics
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Eötvös (crater)
Eötvös is the remains of a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the north-northwest of the walled plain Roche, and east-southeast of the equally ruined Bolyai.
Only the northwestern section of the crater's rim survives, ...
on the Moon
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Eötvös rule
The Eötvös rule, named after the Hungarian physicist Loránd (Roland) Eötvös (1848–1919) enables the prediction of the surface tension of an arbitrary liquid pure substance at all temperatures. The density, molar mass and the critical tempe ...
for predicting surface tension dependent on temperature
See also
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References
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Hungarian words and phrases
Hungarian-language surnames