Eotvos

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Eötvös can refer to one of several Hungarian people:

• József Eötvös, a Hungarian statesman and author
• Loránd Eötvös, a Hungarian physicist
• Peter Eötvös, composer and conductor
• József Eötvös (musician), a Hungarian guitar player
• Zoltán Eötvös, a Hungarian speed skater

Eötvös can also refers to several concepts and a place, all named for Loránd Eötvös:

• an eotvos, a unit of gravitational gradient
• the Eötvös effect, a concept in geodesy
• the Eötvös experiment, an experiment determining the correlation between gravitational and inertial mass.
• the Eötvös number, a concept in fluid dynamics
• the Eötvös (crater) on the moon
• the Eötvös rule for predicting surface tension dependent on temperature