László Egyed

László Egyed [ ˈlaːsloː ˈɛɟɛd ] (born February 12, 1914 in Făgăraş , † July 11, 1970 in Budapest ) was a geophysicist from Hungary . He published over 100 scientific articles and in 1956 the specialist book A Föld Fizikája , which appeared in German translation in 1969 as “ Physics of the Solid Earth ”.

Egyed was a supporter of the expansion theory of the earth, which was continued in the 1970s (among others) by Samuel Warren Carey (1911-2002) and is partly an alternative hypothesis to plate tectonics .

Egyed gave the annual increase in their radius with about 1 mm (500 km since the Cambrian ). On a phenomenological basis, he represented the geophysical implications of a possible decrease in the gravitational constant or of the resulting phase transitions in the earth's interior, the existence of which has since been made plausible in another way.

After Egyed's death, the László Egyed Medal was donated to commemorate his globally recognized research, which is awarded every two to three years to important work in geophysics .