Aurel Stodola

Physicist

Birthday May 10, 1859

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Slovakia

DEATH DATE Dec 25, 1942 (83)

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About

Engineer, physicist, and inventor who did extensive work in technical thermodynamics. He was a Corresponding member of French Academy of Sciences and he received the James Watt International Medal in 1941.

Before Fame

He taught mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute.

Trivia

He founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion in 1892.

Family Life

He was born in Liptószentmiklós in the Kingdom of Hungary.

Associated With

He and Richard Feynman were both accomplished physicists.