Gyula Svehla

* Ipolyberzence, December 19, 1888 – July 30, 1968 / chemist ; ; He obtained a teaching certificate from the University of Budapest in 1912. He fought on the fronts during the World War, obtained his doctorate in 1919, and was employed at the Clay and Fireclay Factory. In 1921, he took a position as a chemist at the Ózd ironworks. In 1927, he became the chief engineer of the ironworks, and in 1941, its director. Upon nationalization (in 1948), he became the head of the factory's laboratory, a position he held until his retirement in 1955. In addition to his work, he was also involved in research and education. He gave lectures on metallurgical analysis at the Technical University of Heavy Industry in Miskolc. In his doctoral dissertation he dealt with the chemistry of proteins (in 1919), later he switched to the cultivation of metallurgical technological and material testing procedures. Gyula Svehla studied the ferrous metallurgical usability of coke produced from Komló coal, and conducted experiments on the utilization of metallurgical by-products in the construction industry. Main work: Metallurgical Analyses, 1952. His son, Gyula Svehla Jr. (Ózd, 1929 –) also became a chemist and taught at the Budapest University of Technology until 1965. From 1965 he was a visiting researcher first in Scotland and then in Northern Ireland, and from 1987 he was a professor at the University of Cork. His field of expertise is analytical chemistry.