Ányos Jedlik

Ányos István Jedlik
Portrait by Károly Rusz, 1866
Born
Jedlik Ányos István

(1800-01-11)11 January 1800
Died13 December 1895(1895-12-13) (aged 95)
CitizenshipHungarian
Known forElectric motor, dynamo, self-excitation, impulse generator, Cascade connection
Scientific career
FieldsInventor, engineer, physicist

Ányos István Jedlik (1800 – 1895) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and author of several books. He is considered by Hungarians and Slovaks to be the unsung father of the dynamo and electric motor.