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Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 17 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary (in German: Zipser Bela, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia ).
Joseph Petzval (Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Josef Maximilian Petzval, Petzvál József Miksa) was a 19th-century mathematician, inventor and physicist. He is one of the founders of geometrical optics, modern photography and cinematography.
Józeph Petzval was a Hungarian mathematician who invented the Laplace transform independently of Laplace. View five larger pictures. Biography.
Joseph Petzval was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Zipser Bela in the Kingdom of Hungary. Petzval studied and later lectured at the Institutum Geometricum (currently Budapest University of Technology and Economics) in Buda (today part of Budapest).
The Petzval objective, or Petzval lens, is the first photographic portrait objective lens (with a 160 mm focal length) in the history of photography. It was developed by the Slovak mathematics professor Joseph Petzval in 1840 in Vienna , [2] with technical advice provided by Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer [ de ] .
Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 17 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. He was born in the town of Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary (in German: Zipser Bela, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia ).
Joseph (Josef) Petzval. Born in the Slovakian village of Spisska-Biela on January 6, 1807, Joseph (Josef) Max Petzval majored in engineering at the University of Budapest, where he was named professor of mathematics in 1835.
