List of Hungarian inventors and discoverers
The list of Hungarian inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Hungary in alphabetical order by family name.
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- Donát Bánki (1859–1922), Hungary - carburetor , 1893 (with János Csonka) (controversial, since carburetor was already available)
- László József Bíró (1899–1985), Hungary and Argentina - ballpoint pen , 1938
- Ottó Titusz Bláthy (1860–1939), Hungary - transformer (with Miksa Déri and Károly Zipernowsky), wattmeter , alternating current and turbo generator
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- Miksa Déri (1854–1938), Hungary - co-inventor of the transformer in 1885 (with Ottó Titusz Bláthy and Zipernowsky)
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- Dennis Gabor (1900–1979), Hungary - Holography , 1948
- József Galamb (1881–1955), Hungary / USA - Ford Model T , freewheel , electric ignition , Ford Model A
- Peter Carl Goldmark (1906-1977), Hungary - LP from Vinyl 1948, CBS color television
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- George de Hevesy (1885–1966), Hungary - radioactive tracer (with Friedrich Adolf Paneth ), Nobel Prize
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- János Irinyi (1817–1895), Hungary - noiseless, low-explosive match 1836, safety detonator
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- Ányos Jedlik (1800–1895), Hungary - DC motor 1829, dynamo-electric principle ( dynamo machine ) 1861
- György Jendrassik (1898–1954), Hungary - turboprop
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- John G. Kemeny (1926–1992), Hungary - co-inventor of BASIC
- Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804), Austria / Hungary - Chess Turk 1769, speaking machine 1791
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- Dénes von Mihály (1894–1953), Hungary - “Telehor” mechanical television , 1919
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- John von Neumann (1903–1957), Hungary / USA - Von Neumann architecture
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- Tivadar Puskás (1844-1893), Hungary - telephone ( exchange ) in 1878, founder of the telephone newspaper Phone Hírmondó 1893
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- Ernő Rubik (* 1944), Hungary - Rubik's Cube 1974, Rubik's Snake , Rubiks Uhr 1988
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- Béla Schick (1877–1967), Hungary / USA - Schick test ( diphtheria test) 1910/11
- Charles Simonyi (* 1948), Hungary / USA - Hungarian notation between 1972 and 1981
- Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt (1893–1986), Hungary - Nobel Prize 1918 “for his discoveries in the field of biological combustion processes , especially in relation to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid ”
- Leo Szilard (1898–1964), Hungary / Austria / USA - co-inventor of the atomic bomb , nuclear reactor
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Leó Szilárd (around 1960)
Eugene Wigner (1963)
Edward Teller (1958)
Johann von Neumann (around 1940)
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- Edward Teller (1908–2003), Austria / Hungary / USA - hydrogen bomb 1952
- The Martians , Hungary / USA - Physics and Mathematics, first half of the 20th century
- Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), Hungary - cathode ray tube , radioscope 1926
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- Edmund Uher (1892-1989), Hungary - photo typesetting machine "Uhertype" ( light-planter ) 1930 1939
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- Eugene Paul Wigner (1902–1995), Austria / Hungary / USA - physics, Wigner-Seitz cell , Wigner energy (a specific quantity in the operation of nuclear reactors), Breit-Wigner formula , Wigner-Eckart theorem , Wigner function , Wigner crystal (a little elementary term in theoretical solid state physics), Wigner's friend (similar to Schrödinger's cat, helps with the interpretation of quantum mechanics), Jordan-Wigner transformation
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- Károly Zipernowsky (1853–1942), Hungary - Transformer 1885 (with Ottó Titusz Bláthy and Miksa Déri)