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chemist engineer university professor

Franjo Hanaman was a Croatian inventor, engineer, and chemist, who gained world recognition for inventing the world"s first applied electric light-bulb with a metal filament with his assistant Alexander Just, independently of his contemporaries.

Education

University of Vienna.

Career

They were granted the Hungarian Patent #34541 on December 13, 1904 in Budapest. His invention of tungsten filament was also applied in improving early diodes and triodes. Franjo Hanaman was born to a Croatian family as a second child of father Gjuro Hanaman and Emilija Mandušić.