Štefan Anián Jedlík (born 11.th January 1800 in Zemné, county Nitra - died 12.th December 1897 in Györ, Hungary) -a physicist, inventor, pedagogue, since 1858 a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. After completion of the secondary school studies in Trnava and Bratislava, he has entered into the Benedictian orden. He studied theology in the church seminar in Pannohalma and concurrently, he studied mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Budapest, where he obtained the degree Doctor of Philosophy. In the period 1821 - 1829 he has acted as the professor of physics at the...