Geza Toth

* Nyitra, 14 August 1901 – † Adelaide, 4 June 1995 / meteorologist, geophysicist ; ; He spent his childhood in Szentendre, where his father was the director of the ref. school. With a mathematics and physics teaching diploma from the Budapest University of Science and Technology, he joined the OMFI (National Meteorological and Geomagnetic Institute) in 1927. In addition, he taught mathematics at the Technical University for about twenty years. In 1930, he studied the work of German observatories as a scholarship holder. As an aerologist, he participated in upper atmosphere measurements. In 1934, he became an assistant professor, and from 1935, he was a member of the Aerological Committee of the IMO (International Meteorological Organization). He organized and trained gliders. In the middle of World War II, he took over the leadership of the Forecast Department. The After the war, he was responsible for ensuring the meteorological conditions for the resumption of civil aviation. In 1946, he was appointed chief meteorologist, and in 1948, he was appointed director of the OMFI. In 1950, he was arrested by the State Security Authority (ÁVH)130, sent to the Recsk labor camp (as he himself noted with wry humor: for a three-year vacation), and released in 1953. As a mathematician, he was the head of a computing center, and then from 1971 (as a pensioner) he worked at the Department of Geophysics at ELTE. In recognition of his scientific activities, he received the Eötvös Loránd Prize in 1991. In 1993, he was awarded the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was visiting his daughter living in Australia when she died.