Botanical Garden) Imre Makovecz (Architect, one of the most prominent proponents of organic architecture) Dénes Mihály (Engineer, inventor) Samu Pecz (Architect of the Great Market Hall (Budapest)) Josef Petzval (Physicist, mathematician and inventor) Ernő Rubik (Architect, inventor of mechanical puzzles) Frigyes Schulek (Architect of the Fisherman's Bastion) Károly Simonyi (Physicist, father of Charles Simonyi) Max Speter (chemist and science historian) Imre Steindl (Architect of the Hungarian Parliament) Leó Szilárd (Physicist, "father" of the atomic bomb, one of two co-inventors of nuclear reactor) Kálmán Tihanyi (First patent on fully electronical TV, Inventor of Plasma TV, CRT-tube pioneer, designed the first pilotless aircraft) Eva Vecsei (Architect, based in Montreal) Sports The university has one sports club, the Műegyetemi AFC, which played in the first 1901 Hungarian League season. The university hosted the IFIUS 2008 World Interuniversity Games in October. National Technical Information Centre and Library The National Technical Information Centre and Library at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME OMIKK) is the successor of two major libraries in Hungary. The Central Library of BME The library of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (then Joseph Polytechnics) was formally founded in 1848 when Baron József Eötvös, Minister of Religion and Public Education donated a book in five volumes that become the first item in the inventory of the library. Since its foundation it moved with the university from Pest to the Buda Castle in 1854 and back to Pest in 1872. In 1882 it moved again, to the campus near the National Museum, now the campus of Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University. In 1909 the Library was moved to a separated cathedral like building in the new Campus of BME. The building was designed by Samu Pécz, professor of architecture at the university. The central Aula connects the spacious, wide reading room to the north, the multi floor storage facility to the west and the workrooms of library procedures to the south. The eastern facade is connected to the central building of the university with the 'Bridge of Sighs'. The architectural concept has been proven timeless. Later on the storage capacity was enlarged with the introduction of compact storage technology, and adding a large capacity underground storage facility under the garden of the Campus. Today a remote storage building near Budapest is also used. In the beginning the library was directed by university professors. The first full-time director