Eötvös
# Eötvös

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 (born 1763, Kassa), Hungarian politician (1763–1838)
* József Eötvös (1813, Buda – 1871), a Hungarian statesman and author
* Loránd Eötvös (1848–1919), a Hungarian physicist
* Zoltán Eötvös (1891, Tokaj – 1936), a Hungarian speed skater
* Péter Eötvös (born 1944, Odorheiu Secuiesc), composer and conductor
* József Eötvös (musician) (born 1962, Pécs), a Hungarian guitar player

### Ötvös

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

### Otvos

* Jim Otvos

## 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
