György Jendrassik, also known as George Jendrassik, was a Hungarian physicist and mechanical engineer who lived from 1898 to 1954, born in Budapest and dying in London. He studied at Budapest's József Technical University and then at the University of Berlin, where he attended lectures by Albert Einstein and Max Planck, and in 1922 he obtained his diploma in mechanical engineering in Budapest. From 1927 he worked at Ganz, where he helped to develop diesel engines, designing simple, high-speed engines of low and medium power that could be fitted in vehicles.
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György Jendrassik or George Jendrassik (1898, Budapest, 1954, London) was a Hungarian physicist and mechanical engineer.
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The world's first turboprop was designed by the Hungarian mechanical engineer György Jendrassik.
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