Eötvös

Eötvös
Pronunciation	Hungarian: [ˈøtvøʃ]
Origin
Language(s)	Hungarian
Meaning	silversmith, goldsmith, etc.
Region of origin	Hungarian-speaking area (primary Hungary)
Other names
Variant form(s)	Faber, Fabri, Fabricius; Goldschmidt (German: Goldschmied), Silberschmidt; Polish: Złotnik, Zlotnik (e.g. Asher Zlotnik); Hebrew: צורף tzôrēf, e.g. Joshua Heschel Zoref, Amir Tzoref (he), etc.

Eötvös is an old spelling of the Hungarian word ötvös, meaning "gold- and silversmith".

Family name

Eötvös can refer to one of several Hungarian people:

Ignác Eötvös (1763–1838), Hungarian politician
József Eötvös (1813–1871), Hungarian statesman and author
Loránd Eötvös (1848–1919), Hungarian physicist
Zoltán Eötvös (1891–1936), Hungarian speed skater
Péter Eötvös (1944–2024), Hungarian composer and conductor
József Eötvös (musician) (born 1962) Hungarian guitar player

Fülöp Ö. Beck (Hungarian: Beck Ötvös Fülöp; 1873–1945), Hungarian sculptor, medal maker

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

an eotvos (unit), 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