Ernő Massány(i)

* Kispalugya, November 26, 1878 – † Budapest, January 20, June 3, 1946 / meteorologist, astronomer, aviation expert ; ; He earned a teaching degree from the University of Budapest, and from 1902 to 1917 he was an employee of the National Meteorological Institute and played an important role in organizing instrumental meteorological balloon observations. Between 1917 and 1927 he worked as the director of the Albertfalva aircraft factory, then from 1927 he headed the forecasting department as an employee of the Meteorological Institute again, retiring in 1943. He was one of the founders of the Hungarian Aero Club and the Hungarian Aero Association. He edited the Hungarian Automobile and Aviation Review, and between 1913 and 1917 he edited the journal Aero. In the early 1900s, he studied the periodic changes in the cloud system of the planet Jupiter at the Ógyalla Astrophysical Observatory. He also made comet observations. He was a contributor to the Révai Nagy Lexikona, regularly wrote popular articles for the Vasárnapi Újság and the Pesti Napló, and later often gave lectures on the radio. The exact date of his death is uncertain. ; ; His main works: ; Additions to the history of Jupiter observation (also in German), 1904, ; Research into the meteorological conditions of the upper air layers, 1908.