Aurel Stodola
Aurel Boleslav Stodola (11 May 1859 – 25 December 1942) was a
Slovak engineer,
physicist, and inventor. He was a pioneer in the area of technical thermodynamics and its applications and published his book ''Die Dampfturbine'' (the
steam turbine) in 1903. In addition to the thermodynamic issues involved in turbine design the book discussed aspects of fluid flow, vibration, stress analysis of plates, shells and rotating discs and stress concentrations at holes and fillets. Stodola was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Swiss Polytechnical Institute (now
ETH) in Zurich. He maintained friendly contact with
Albert Einstein. In 1892, Stodola founded the
Laboratory for Energy Conversion.
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