Gyula Hevesi

Gyula Hevesi (21 November 1890, Ungvár – 25 February 1970, Budapest) was a Hungarian chemical engineer and communist politician.

As a research engineer at Tungsram company, with the help of Ármin Helfgott, he developed important processes for the production of gas-filled incandescent lamps.

During his years in the Soviet Union, he solved the problem of economical regeneration of spent light bulbs, organized large-scale production of laboratory glassware and various thermometers.

In the decades after the reorganization of the academy, it played an important role in the recognition of technical sciences.

He was the editor-in-chief of Acta technica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae and the Central People's Control Committee's Journal of People's Control, editor of the Publications of the Department of Technical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, editor-in-chief of the Innovators' Journal and contributor of the New Hungarian Encyclopedia.