András Lévai

He was born in 1908 in Oravița.

In 1926 he graduated from the Technical College in Graz, continued his education at the Technical College of Vienna, which graduated in 1931. After graduation, from 1932 to 1939 he worked as the chief engineer of the Titan-Nedrag-Klan metallurgical plant, in 1939-1940 - an engineer for refining in Ploiești.[2]

In 1940 he immigrated from Romania to Hungary. From 1940 to 1946 he worked at the steelworks and metallurgical plants in Chepel. In 1962 - 1967 he was deputy minister of heavy industry in Hungary.

In parallel with administrative work, he was engaged in teaching activities. From 1953 to 1976 he was a professor at the Chair of Heat Power Engineering at the Technical University of Budapest, from 1976 to 1978 he was a professor at the University, from 1969 to 1972 he was Deputy President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BME). In the mid-1970s he taught in the Soviet Union to the Moscow Power Engineering Institute.[3] From 1999 until his death, he was an honorary professor at the Technical University.[4]

He was engaged in research on the practical use of various systems of power plants, was engaged in the modernization of existing in the country power plants, increasing their efficiency, eliminating pollution by power plants of the environment. Since the mid-1950s he studied the issues of locating nuclear power plants in the country. In 1982, with his direct participation, the first Hungarian nuclear power plant, the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, was put into operation.[5]

• Gazdaságossági kérdések egységes megítélésének szempontjai erőművek tervezésénél. Budapest: Mérnöki Továbbképző Intézet. 1951.
• Hőerőművek I–II. Budapest: Jegyzetsokszorosító. 1951.
• Atomerőművek. Budapest: Felsőoktatási Jegyzetellátó. 1956.
• Elméleti reaktortechnika I–III. Budapest: Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem. 1960–1963.
• Hőerőművek. Budapest: Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem. 1961.
• Reaktorszerkezetek. Budapest: Országos Atomenergia Bizottság. 1961.
• Atomtechnika I–IV. Budapest: Tankönyvkiadó. 1964.
• Maschinentechnische Einrichtungen der Wärmekraftwerke I–II. Leipzig: Verlag für Grundstoffindustrie. 1966–1968.