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    Egon Orowan FRS (Hungarian: Orován Egon) (August 2, 1902 – August 3, 1989) was a Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist. He was key in introducing...
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  • Franz Alexander Peter Carl Goldmark John Harsanyi Peter Lax George Olah Egon Orowan John Polanyi Valentine Telegdi Cornelius Lanczos George de Hevesy The...
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    defects was originally developed by Vito Volterra in 1907. In 1934, Egon Orowan, Michael Polanyi and G. I. Taylor, proposed that the low stresses observed...
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  • England in 1942. Her parents were pianist Jolan (née Schonfeld) and Egon Orowan, a native of Budapest, Hungary. Both of her parents fled Nazi Germany...
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    Garrigue Masaryk, Lise Meitner, Gregor Mendel, Karl Menger, Franz Mesmer, Egon Orowan, Franz Miklosich, Alois Mock, Wolf-Dieter Montag, Matija Murko, Paul...
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    ductility of a worked piece, so that shaping can continue. In 1934, Egon Orowan, Michael Polanyi and Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, roughly simultaneously,...
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    with him". Ibn Khaldun's work on evolution of societies also influenced Egon Orowan, who introduced the concept of socionomy. While Ibn Khaldun's record-keeping...
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  • States (1924–2020) Leonard Salomon Ornstein – Netherlands (1880–1941) Egon Orowan – Austria-Hungary, United States (1901–1989) Hans Christian Ørsted –...
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    Modigliani, MIT economics professor (Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1985) Egon Orowan, MIT physicist and metallurgist Edwin O. Reischauer, Harvard professor...
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    1937, in a factory co-designed by Polányi and Hungarian-born physicist Egon Orowan. By 1964, improvements in efficiency and production of incandescent lamps...
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