Eotvos
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Eötvös is an old spelling of the Hungarian
Hungarian language
Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 word ötvös, meaning "gold-
Goldsmith
A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...

 & silversmith
Silversmith
A silversmith is a craftsperson who makes objects from silver or gold. The terms 'silversmith' and 'goldsmith' are not synonyms as the techniques, training, history, and guilds are or were largely the same but the end product varies greatly as does the scale of objects created.Silversmithing is the...

".

Family name

Eötvös can refer to one of several Hungarian people:
  • József Eötvös, Baron de Vásárosnamény
    József Eötvös
    József baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény was a Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignacz baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien, who stemmed from an Erbsälzer family of Werl in Germany....

     (1813, Buda - 1871), a Hungarian statesman and author
    • Loránd Eötvös, Baron de Vásárosnamény
      Loránd Eötvös
      Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény , more commonly called Baron Roland von Eötvös in English literature, was a Hungarian physicist. He is remembered today largely for his work on gravitation and surface tension.-Life:...

       (1848 - 1919), a Hungarian physicist
  • Zoltán Eötvös
    Zoltán Eötvös
    Zoltán Eötvös was a Hungarian speed skater who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics. He was born in Tokaj and died in Budapest.-Hungarian championships:...

     (1891, Tokaj - 1936), a Hungarian speed skater
  • Peter Eötvös
    Peter Eötvös
    Péter Eötvös is a Hungarian composer and conductor.Eötvös was born in Odorheiu Secuiesc/Székelyudvarhely, Szeklerland, Transylvania . He studied composition in Budapest and Cologne. From 1962, he composed for film in Hungary. Eötvös played regularly with the Stockhausen Ensemble between 1968 and...

     (born 1944, Odorheiu Secuiesc), composer and conductor
  • József Eötvös
    József Eötvös (musician)
    József Eötvös 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 1988...

     (born 1962, Pécs), a Hungarian guitar player

Ötvös

  • Fülöp Beck(-)Ö(tvös).
    Fülöp Ö. Beck
    Beck Ö. Fülöp was a Hungarian sculptor noted for his medal sculptures of Endre Ady, Sándor Petõfi, Ferenc Liszt, Mihály Babits and Kelemen Mikes creating over 500 in his career...

     ' onMouseout='HidePop("10752")' href="/topics/Pápa">Pápa
    Pápa
    Pápa is a historical city in Veszprém county, Hungary, located close to the northern edge of the Bakony Hills, and noted for its baroque architecture. With its 33,000 inhabitants, it is the cultural, economic and tourism centre of the region....

     - 1945, Budapest), a Hungarian sculptor, medal maker (hu)

Otvos

  • Jim Otvos
    Jim Otvos
    Jim Otvos is an academician/researcher/entrepreneur in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.From the late 1960s to early 1970s, the basic science work which led to sub-fractionation of lipoprotein particles had been a breakthrough into how fats needed and manipulated by all cells in the body...

  • (Laurenţiu) Marcel Otvoş (born 1982, Buzău), a Romanian football player

Other

Eötvös can also refers to several concepts and a place, all named for Loránd Eötvös:
  • an eotvos
    Eotvos (unit)
    The eotvos is a unit of acceleration divided by distance that was used in conjunction with the older centimeter-gram-second system of units. The eotvos is defined as 1/1,000,000,000 galileo per centimetre...

    , a unit of gravitational gradient
  • the Eötvös effect
    Eötvös effect
    The Eötvös effect is the change in perceived gravitational force caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity...

    , a concept in geodesy
    Geodesy
    Geodesy , also named geodetics, a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field, in a three-dimensional time-varying space. Geodesists also study geodynamical phenomena such as crustal...

  • the Eötvös experiment
    Eötvös experiment
    The Eötvös experiment was a famous 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 same accuracy. The earliest experiments were...

    , an experiment determining the correlation between gravitational and inertial mass.
  • the Eötvös number
    Eötvös number
    In fluid dynamics the Eötvös number is a dimensionless number named after Hungarian physicist Loránd Eötvös . It is also known as the Bond number...

    , a concept in fluid dynamics
    Fluid dynamics
    In physics, fluid dynamics is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with fluid flow—the natural science of fluids in motion. It has several subdisciplines itself, including aerodynamics and hydrodynamics...

  • the Eötvös (crater)
    Eötvös (crater)
    Eötvös is the remains of a lunar 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....

     on the moon
  • the Eötvös rule
    Eötvös rule
    The Eötvös rule, named after the Hungarian physicist Loránd Eötvös enables the prediction of the surface tension of an arbitrary liquid pure substance at all temperatures. The density, molar mass and the critical temperature of the liquid have to be known. At the critical point the surface...

     for predicting surface tension
    Surface tension
    Surface tension is a property of the surface of a liquid that allows it to resist an external force. It is revealed, for example, in floating of some objects on the surface of water, even though they are denser than water, and in the ability of some insects to run on the water surface...

     dependent on temperature

See also

  • Złotniki
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