Imre Bródy

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Imre Bródy

Imre Bródy (born December 23, 1891 in Gyula , Hungary , † December 20, 1944 in Mühldorf am Inn ) was a Hungarian physicist .

He studied physics in Budapest and wrote his doctoral thesis on the chemical constant of gases made up of atoms.

He then worked first as a teacher and then became an assistant to the chair for practical physics and dealt with specific heat and molecular heat. From 1920 he was Max Born's assistant in Göttingen, where they jointly set up the dynamic theory of crystals.

In 1923 he returned to Hungary and worked as an engineer in the Tungsram factory , where he replaced the argon in incandescent lamps with krypton in 1930 . They also worked out a method for extracting krypton from air. In 1937 the production of krypton lamps began in Ajka . After the German occupation of Hungary, Bródy was first interned as a Jew in the forest camp, then transferred to the Mettenheim camp in the Mühldorf am Inn district on November 11, 1944 , where he died.

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