Hungarian Nobel Laureates
LÉNÁRD FÜLÖP - Philipp E. A. von Lenard
(Bratislava, 7th June, 1862.- Messelhausen, 20th May, 1947.)
He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1905 "For the atomic model based on cathode ray examinations". He lived in Germany and did not regard himself as Hungarian.
BÁRÁNY RÓBERT - Robert Bárány
(Vienna, 22nd April, 1876. - Uppsala, 8th April, 1936.)
He received the 1914 Nobel-Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1915 "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus". He lived in Sweden.
ZSIGMONDY RICHÁRD - Richard A. Zsigmondy
(Vienna, 1st April, 1865.- Gottingen, 23rd September, 1929.)
He was awarded the 1925 Nobel-Prize in Chemistry in 1926 "for the demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since then become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry". He lived in Germany.
SZENT-GYÖRGYI ALBERT - Albert von Szent-Györgyi
(Budapest, 16th September, 1893.- Woods Hole, 22nd October, 1986.)
He was awarded the Nobel-Prize in Medicine in 1937 "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid". He was a professor at the Szeged University of Sciences between 1928 and 1945 and lived in the United States from 1947.
HEVESY GYÖRGY - George de Hevesy
(Budapest, 1st August, 1885.- Freiburg im Breisgau, 5th July, 1966.)
He was awarded the 1943 Nobel-Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes". He lived in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
BÉKÉSY GYÖRGY - Georg von Békésy
(Budapest, 3rd June, 1899.- Honolulu, 13th June, 1972.)
He received the Nobel-Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1961 "for his discoveries concerning the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea". He lived in the United States.
WIGNER JENÕ - Eugene P. Wigner
(Budapest, 17th November 1902.- Princeton, 1st January, 1995.)
He received the Nobel-Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contribution to the theory of the atomic nucleus and elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles". He lived in the United States.
GÁBOR DÉNES - Dennis Gabor
(Budapest, 5th June 1900. - London, 9th February, 1979.)
He was awarded the Nobel-Prize in Physics in 1971 "for his invention and development of the holographic method". He lived in Great Britain.
POLÁNYI JÁNOS - John C. Polanyi
(Berlin, 23rd January, 1929. - )
The son of natural scientist Mihály Polányi. He was awarded the joint Nobel-Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for his contribution to the development of a new field of research in chemical reaction dynamics". He lives in Canada.
OLÁH GYÖRGY - George A. Olah
(Budapest, 22nd May, 1927. - )
He received the Nobel-Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for the results he achieved in the field of studying the chemistry of carbocations". He lives in the United States.
HARSÁNYI JÁNOS - John C. Harsanyi
(Budapest, 29th May, 1920. - Berkeley, 9th August, 2000.)
He received the Nobel-Prize in Economics in 1994 for his pioneering analysis of equilibrium in non-cooperative games. It was on the basis of the theoretical work of his peers that he showed how games with incomplete information can be analysed and thus created the basis for the research of "information economics". He lived in the United States.
KERTÉSZ, IMRE
(Budapest, 9th November 1929)
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for his novel Sorstalanság (Fateless) written between 1960 and 1973 about his experiences in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in WWII. He was deported from Budapest when he was 11. When returning, he made his living by journalism and as a blue collar worker. His novel was refused first, and when it was published in 1975, it was not critically acclaimed. Success and writing professionally have been the result the end of the socialist regime in Hungary. Imre Kertész has no university degree, he has never been a member of any organisation. Living in Hungary, he is widely successful in German speaking countries.
