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Jan 29, 1905 Szentes, Csongrád County, Hungary Died on 27 Nov 1978 (aged 73)
Hungarian physicist
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About György Szigeti
- György Szigeti (29 January 1905 – 27 November 1978), also known as Gyorgy Szigeti, was a Hungarian physicist and engineer who developed tungsten lamps. 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 Szigeti, along with Zoltán Bay (1900-1992), Tivadar Millner, Imre Bródy (1891-1944), Erno Winter (1897-1971), and others.Szigeti worked together with Zoltán Bay on metal-vapor lamps and fluorescent light sources.
- They received a U.S.
- patent on "electroluminescent light sources" that were made of silicon carbide; these light sources were the ancestors of light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
