Klaudy, Peter#

b.  1903 Stauding (Studenka, Czech Republic), June 17, 1903, d. Salzburg, Oct. 22, 1985, electrical engineer. Studied at Vienna University of Technology, the worked for various companies in the USA and Germany, from 1945 head of the testing institute of the Austrian Federal Railways at Zirl, Tirol, 1950-73 Professor of Fundamental and Theoretical Electrical Engineering in Graz, 1963-77 head of the Institute of Low Temperatur Research. A pioneer of high performance power transmission with superconductor cables, he tested a prototype at the Arnstein power station in Styria in 1979.