Milan Vidmar

Milan Vidmar
CountrySlovenia
Born(1885-06-22)June 22, 1885
Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary
DiedOctober 9, 1962(1962-10-09) (aged 77)
TitleGrandmaster (1950)

Milan Vidmar (22 June 1885 – 9 October 1962) was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.