List of Hungarian Nobel laureates
Hungarians have won 13 Nobel Prizes since 1905. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates from Hungary:[1]
Winners[]
Year | Winner | Field | Contribution |
---|---|---|---|
1905 | Philipp Lenard | Physics | "for his work on cathode rays" |
1914 | Robert Bárány | Medicine | "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus" |
1925 | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy | Chemistry | "for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry" |
1937 | Albert Szent-Györgyi | Medicine | "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to Vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid" |
1943 | George de Hevesy | Chemistry | "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes" |
1961 | Georg von Békésy | Medicine | "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea" |
1963 | Eugene Wigner | Physics | "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles" |
1971 | Dennis Gabor | Physics | "for his invention and development of the holographic method" |
1986 | John Polanyi | Chemistry | "for his contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" |
1994 | George Andrew Olah | Chemistry | "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry" |
1994 | John Harsanyi | Economics | "for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games" |
2002 | Imre Kertész | Literature | "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history" |
2004 | Avram Hershko | Chemistry | "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" |
Also included sometimes[]
- Vladimir Prelog, born in Austria-Hungary, ethnic Croat
- Ivo Andrić, born in Austria-Hungary, ethnic Croat
- Leopold Ružička, born in the Kingdom of Hungary, ethnic Croat
- Elie Wiesel, Hungarian-Jewish, born in Sighet, Transylvania
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, parents from the Kingdom of Hungary, father ethnic Slovak from Büdöskő, mother ethnic Hungarian (parents from Debrecen)
- Milton Friedman, Hungarian-Jewish, parents from Beregszász, Kingdom of Hungary
- Louise Glück, father Hungarian-Jewish (parents from Érmihályfalva, Kingdom of Hungary)
- George Stigler, mother ethnic Hungarian from the Kingdom of Hungary[2]
Some Hungarian background[]
- Friedrich Hayek, grandfather from Arad, Kingdom of Hungary
- Erwin Schrödinger, grandfather from Mosonmagyaróvár, Kingdom of Hungary
- Patrick Modiano, Hungarian-Jewish, grandmother from Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary[3][4]
References[]
- ^ "Hungary's Nobel Prize Winners". Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ "George J. Stigler". The Nobel Prize. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ "Ki az a Patrick Modiano?". La femme (in Hungarian). October 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ "Dora Bruder". The Free Library. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
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- Hungarian Nobel laureates
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