Gyula Radnai

ret. associate professor

PhD (CANDIDATE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES; HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1990)

Room(s): Lágymányos Campus, Northern Building 464
Phone(s): +36-1-258-0336
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Email: UH.ETLE.SNEDUL@ALUYGIANDAR&

Biography:

Place and time of the birth: Budapest, 04/15, 1939.

Qualification: Secondary school teacher for mathematics and physics, 1962, ELTE.

Thesis for the state-examination: Coloursensation, systems of colours, 1962.

Ph.D. thesis (for the candidate-examination of physical sciences): Making use of possibilities given in the educational process for forming the physical view. 1990.

Research interest: Interpretations of concepts in Thermodynamics. Entrance examinations, Physics competitions (Eötvös, Ortvay). History of Physics (famous scientists).

Book in English: Physics in Budapest (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1988)

Selected books in Hungarian: Fizika a felvételi vizsgán (Physics at the Entrance Examination) 1978; Termodinamikai problémák (Problems in Thermodynamics) 1990; Az Eötvös-versenyek feladatai (Problems at the Eötvös-competitions) 1989-1997 (1998); Fizikusok és matematikusok az Eötvös Collegiumban (Physicists and mathematicians at the Eötvös-college) 1895-1950 (2014).

Social commissions: deputy secretary-general 1890-93 and 1996-99, and vice president 1999-2003 at the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society; President at the Eötvös competition board 1988-2013; President of the central entrance examination board in Physics 1995-2004.

Distinctions: Prometeus medal (1989); Zemplén Jolán medaillon (1989); Eötvös medal (1994)."

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Selected publications of recent years:

A másképp gondolkodás bűvöletében - 100 éve született David Bohm fizikus; Fizikai Szemle LXVII 429-434 (2017)
Feynman Magyarországon; Fizikai Szemle LXVIII 154-162 (2018)
Hogyan kezdte tanítani Eötvös Loránd a fizikát? Fizikai Szemle LXIX 295-299 (2019)