Bela Milasovszky

* Szomolnok, April 21, 1900 – † Budapest, July 30, 1973 / mining engineer, university professor ; ; He came from a mining family. He completed his higher education at the Mining and Forestry College in Sopron from 1921. He was an assistant professor at the college's Department of Mining Engineering and Mechanics from 1926 to 1933. He worked in a responsible position in the State Surveying Organization from 1933 to 1950. From 1950 to 1959, he was the head of the Department of Geodesy at the Technical University of Heavy Industry in Miskolc, and from 1959 to 1968, he was the head of the Department of Geodesy and Mining Surveying, which he founded. He dealt with geodesy, leveling calculations, photogrammetry and geographical location. Nearly seventy scientific papers were published about his professional achievements. He was a member of the Geodesy Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received numerous awards for his teaching and professional work. In 1960 he was awarded the title of Doctor of Technical Science. In the 22nd volume of the communications of the Miskolc University of Heavy Industry, published in 1975, Milasovszky published some of his previously unpublished papers in memory of his former teacher. ; ; Main works: ; Evaluation of our polar height measurements of 1949 (Földméréstani Közlemények, 2, p. 97–110), 1954, ; The most favorable solution for the time determinations of Laplace points with special regard to the meridian method (doctoral dissertation), 1959.