STAROSOLSZKY

HUNGARY (see also List of Individuals)

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26.12.1931 Veszprém/HU - 3.6.2006 Budapest/HU

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Ödön Starosolszky graduated in 1954 from the Budapest University of Technology BUT as a civil engineer to continue his professional career at the Water Resources Research Institute VITUKI, Budapest. He served until 1971 in various positions, finally as Deputy Head of department. From 1971 to 1976, Starosolszky was a staff member of the National Water Authority, where he directed tasks in the scientific research, technical planning and professional education in water resources. After return to VITUKI in 1976, he directed its Institute of Hydraulics until 1989, and became its Director General in 1991 until his retirement in 1998. He was in parallel also involved in education at BUT.

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Starosolszky's professional activity included various branches of water management, namely the hydrology of surface waters and storage reservoirs, on-site investigations of hydrotechnical facilities, peak-load operation of hydropower plants, automation of agricultural irrigation, mixing processes in rivers, ice hydraulics, and the impacts of climate change on the water management. He published more than 200 papers, including 90 works in foreign journals. His books Water discharge measurement, Hydraulics of water engineering and Ice in water engineering are the most notable. Starosolszky was further the editor of the two-volumes books Water engineering, and Applied Surface Hydrology. He in addition served from 1958 to 1990 as co-editor of the Hungarian journal Vízügyi Közlemények. In addition, Starosolszky was a chairman of the IAHR Ice Section, and an IAHR Council Member from 1984 to 1988, and from 1988 to 1991 a Vice-president of the International Association of Hydraulic Research IAHR. He was the recipient of the Vásárhelyi, the Eötvös and the Kvassay Jenő Prizes.

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_{Bakonyi, P. (2006). Dr. Ödön Starosolszky. IAHR News 23(6): 92. P}

_{Starosolszky, Ö. (1961). Expériences faites en Hongrie avec les installations de mesures Hydrauliques. La Houille Blanche 16(1): 66-80.}

_{Starosolszky, Ö. (1965). Untersuchungen bei Staustufe Tiszalök. Wasserwirtschaft 55(1): 5-12. Starosolszky, Ö. (1970). Hydraulic structures. Műszaki Kiadó: Budapest (in Hungarian).}

_{Starosolszky, Ö. (1975). Classification of mixing phenomena associated with pollutants discharged into the recipients. 16 IAHR Congress Sao Paulo 3: 475-482.}

_{Starosolszky, Ö. (1985). Ice and river engineering. Developments in Hydraulic Engineering 3: 175-219, P. Novak, ed. Elsevier: Amsterdam.}