Eötvös

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

Family name

Template:Infobox surname 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

Ötvös

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

Otvos

• A. Dorian Otvos (1893–1945), American writer and composer
• Jim Otvos, academician

Other

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

See also

• List of titled noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary