Gusztav Bakos

* Nagyszombat, August 2, 1918 – † Waterloo [Canada], October 1, 1991 / astronomer, university professor ; ; Hungarian-born astronomer, graduated from Charles University in Prague in 1940, then became a professor in Nagyszombat. In 1946, he went to the Netherlands, worked at the Leiden Observatory, from 1951 he worked at the Dominion Observatory (Ottawa) in Canada, and later at the David Dunlap Observatory in Toronto. For a short time, he was also a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution in the USA and at the Dearborn Observatory (Illinois), and in 1967 he was appointed to the Department of Physics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where he founded the university observatory, which was named the “Gustav Bakos Observatory” in his honor, and an annual Bakos Memorial Conference is also held. He dealt with the measurement of visual star pairs, as well as photometric and spectroscopic star pairs (covering variables), and studied the possibilities of electronic measurement techniques. He also contributed to the implementation of observations necessary for students' theses. He gladly worked with students from Slovakia and Hungary. The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences elected him a member in 1973. ; ; His main works: ; Photometric and spectrographic Investigation of Visual Binaries, 1959.