Loránd Eötvös refers to a Hungarian physicist and geophysicist, Loránd Eötvös (1848–1919), who is best known for his work in gravitational physics and the development of the Eötvös experiment. The Eötvös experiment was designed to measure the equivalence principle, a fundamental aspect of general relativity that asserts that gravitational mass is equivalent to inertial mass.
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