2026-10-08 Nevpont (Hungarian biographical dictionary), kozakpeter.hu

Script got a stub; Chrome passed a Cloudflare "Just a moment" interstitial on its own (no interaction). Page: 'Akin Karoly', by Kozak Peter, nevpont.hu 2023. [web] https://www.kozakpeter.hu/palyakep/akin-karoly-e7791 Findings (Hungarian, my summary): Karoly Akin (born Kohn, name changed 1861; b. 15 Jan 1830 Obuda, d. 31 Oct 1893 Fiume, suicide), physicist and engineer; probably Heidelberg doctorate; worked with Bunsen and Kirchhoff at Heidelberg; knew Faraday in England; "became involved in a personal professional dispute with one of Faraday's colleagues, John Tyndall"; elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 18 March 1868; honorary member of the London Athenaeum (Fovarosi Lapok, 22 Nov 1864). Works listed are Hungarian popular and reform writings; no physics papers after 1865 named. Later life: business failure, politics, Paris, poverty in Vienna. Bearing: claim 4 and the historical record of the calorescence priority dispute: Tyndall's rival on "calcescence" left physics after 1865; his side of the story is in Phil. Mag. 29 (1865) 28-43 and his BA Report 1863 paper, not yet read in full.