Imre Bródy

Imre Bródy ( born December 23, 1891 in Gyula, Hungary, † 20 December 1944 Mühldorf ) was a Hungarian physicist.

He studied physics in Budapest and wrote his doctoral thesis on the chemical constant the group consisting of an atomic gases.

He then worked first as a teacher and then became the assistant of the chair of practical physics and dealt with specific heat and molecular heat. From 1920 he was assistant to Max Born in Göttingen, where they lined up together the dynamic theory of crystals.

In 1923 he returned to Hungary and worked as an engineer in the factory Tungsram, where he replaced the argon incandescent lamps by 1930 in Krypton. They worked for a method, such as krypton, can be recovered from air. 1937 began production of incandescent bulbs in Ajka. After the German occupation of Hungary Bródy was interned as a Jew in the forest camp, then transferred on 11 November 1944 in the camp Mette home, district Mühldorf am Inn, where he died.