- György Szigeti
György Szigeti (1905-1978), "Fizikai Szemle 1999/5 - Zsolt Bor: OPTICS BY HUNGARIANS" (with Zoltan Bay), József Attila University,
Szeged ,Hungary , 1999, webpage: [http://www.kfki.hu/fszemle/archivum/fsz9905/bor.html KFKI-Hungary-Bor] .] also known as Gyorgy Szigeti,was a Hungarianphysicist andengineer who developedtungsten lamps.György Szigeti worked with
Zoltan Bay on metal-vapor lamps and fluorescent light sources.In 1923 at Tungsram Ltd., a research laboratory was established for improving light sources, mainly electric bulbs.The head of that laboratory was
Ignácz Pfeiffer (1867-1941), whose research staff included György Szigeti, along withZoltan Bay (1900-1992),Tivadar Millner ,Imre Bródy (1891-1944),Ernő Winter (1897-1971), and many others.György Szigeti worked together with Zoltan Bay on metal-vapor lamps and fluorescent light sources. They received a U.S. patent on "Electroluminescent light sources" which were made of silicon carbide; these light sources were the ancestors of
light-emitting diode s (LEDs).Notes
External links
* [http://www.kfki.hu/fszemle/archivum/fsz9905/bor.html KFKI notes on György Szigeti] .
* [http://www.hpo.hu/English/feltalalok/bay.html HPO-Hungary on György Szigeti] .
* [http://www.bzlogi.hu/bzaka/bz_a.htm BzLogi-Hungary-Bzaka on György Szigeti] .
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