Joseph Petzval was a mathematician, inventor and physicist best known for his work in optics, born in 1807 in Szepesbéla in the Kingdom of Hungary, now Spišská Belá in Slovakia. He studied and later lectured at the Institutum Geometricum in Pest, headed its Institute of Practical Geometry and Hydrology and Architecture from 1841 to 1848, and later took a chair of mathematics at the University of Vienna. He became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1873. He is considered one of the main founders of geometrical optics, modern photography and cinematography, invented the Petzval portrait lens, and is credited with the discovery of the Laplace transform. He also studied the differential equations of string oscillations in acoustics.
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He was known for being very eccentric and would often be found directing the church choir in his pyjamas.
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