Imre Bródy

Imre Bródy (1891, Gyula, Hungary[1]–1944, Mühldorf) was a Hungarian physicist who invented in 1930 the krypton-filled fluorescent lamps (also known as the krypton electric bulb),[2] with fellow-Hungarian inventors Emil Theisz, Ferenc Kőrösy and Tivadar Millner.

He developed the technology of the production of krypton bulbs together with Michael Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi Mihály).

Being Jewish, he was murdered on 20 December 1944, at age 53, in Mühldorf subcamp, a satellite system of the Dachau concentration camp.

Production of krypton filled lamps based on his invention started at Ajka in 1937, in a factory co-designed by Polányi and Hungarian-born physicist Egon Orowan.

1944 wurde er mit seiner Familie ein Opfer der Shoa, Physik-Journal 21 (2022) Nr.