# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lorand-eotvos
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:52:33.558Z

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name: "Loránd Eötvös"
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description: "Baron Loránd Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, also 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, and the invention of the torsion pendulum."
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birthDate: "1848-07-27"
deathDate: "1919-04-08"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump