Angol leírás, sztori

Ján Andrej Segner (Segner János András - 1707-1777) Hungarian naturalist, mathematician, doctor, physicist and professor.
He has graduated his primary- and high schools in Bratislava and Győr, and in 1724 He has began his college studies in the Reformed College in Debrecen. In 1730 he started practicing as a doctor in Bratislava, and from 1735 he was professor of mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Göttingen.

He founded the Göttingen Observatory in 1755, then until his death he was professor of physics, mathematics and astronomy in Halle, where he died in 1777.

He had several inventions and significant physical and mathematical discoveries (as the Segner wheel) as the "ancestor" of water turbine.
He has set down the basic mechanical laws of liquids, rigid bodies and in mathematics he has been addressed the questions of graphical solution of the Cavalier's and Descartes's equations.
He wrote several mathematical books which were defeated its age. He represented the practical direction in sciences of chemistry.

He was one of the most important polyhistor scientists of his time. Several existed artworks to be commemorated him in Debrecen and Szeged.

The bust is a 146 x 27 x 14 inch-based limestone-sandstone ribbed column which overlooks the Danube. The bust has been placed at height of around 80 in. It made of bronze and it is 26 in. tall.