Jozef Čabelka
Prof. Ing. Jozef Čabelka, DrSc. (15 February 1910 Holíč – 6 July 1987, Bratislava) was a Slovak micrometallurgist and welder.
He studied in Brno and in Paris. He served as a professor at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava and he was co-founder of Slovak Academy of Science.
A crossroads in Bratislava and a secondary technical school in Holíč are named after him.
Research Institute of Welding in Bratislava
In 1949 he founded the Research Institute of Welding in Bratislava (Výskumný ústav zváračský, abbreviation VÚZ), which soon became internationally recognized. He even co-funded its establishment from his own resources. He served as its director until 1961. After Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolaj Bulganin visited the institute, surprised that it was on a higher level than similar institutions in USSR, he was fired due to political pressure.[1]
Discoveries and research
- Čabelka test
- discovery of brittle fracture
- welding annealing technology
Awards
- he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics
- in 1947 he was awarded the International Prize of J. F. Lincoln Arc-Welding Foundation of I. level. He used the award to obtain new systems and machines for the Research Institute of Welding in Bratislava; otherwise, it would have been confiscated by the state.
- he was awarded the state prize of Czechoslovakia twice
- in 1996 Slovak president Michal Kováč awarded him with the Order of Ľudovít Štúr of I. class, in memoriam
References
- ↑ Ripka, Ivor (2015-06-01). "Kačala, Ján: Jaz Yk Majstrov . Bratislava: Spolok Slovenských Spisovateľov 2014". Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný Casopis. 66 (1): 58–64. doi:10.1515/jazcas-2015-0012. ISSN 0021-5597.
- TURŇA, Milan. 100 rokov od narodenia Jozefa Čabelku. Spektrum : Periodikum Slovenskej technickej univerzity v Bratislave (Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo STU), február 2010, roč. XVI. /XLVIII./, č. 6
- CIFRA, Štefan. Jozef Čabelka (* 12. 2. 1910 Holíč – † 6. 7. 1987 Bratislava). Literárny týždenník (Bratislava: Spolok slovenských spisovateľov), 2017.
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