Hungarian Forint Exchange RatePhilipp E. A. von Lenard
June 7, 1862, Pozsony – May 20, 1947, Messelhausen
Philippe Lenard (Fülöp Lénárd) received 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics for “his work on cathode rays.” He lived in Germany and did not consider himself a Hungarian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Lenard
Robert Bárány
April 22, 1876, Vienna – April 8, 1936, Uppsala
Robert (Róbert) Bárány received the Nobel Prize in Medicine “for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.” He lived in Sweden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bárány
Richard A. Zsigmondy
April 1, 1865, Vienna – September 23, 1929, Göttingen
Richard (Richárd) Zsigmondy received the 1925 Nobel Prize in 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.” He lived in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adolf_Zsigmondy
Albert Szent-Györgyi
September 16, 1893, Budapest – October 22, 1986, Woods Hole, MA
Albert Szent-Györgyi received the 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine “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 Szeged University in Hungary from 1928 to 1945, and moved to the United States in 1947.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Szent-Györgyi
George de Hevesy
August 1, 1885, Budapest – July 5, 1966, Freiburg im Breisgau
George de Hevesy (György Hevesy) received the 1943 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for “for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes.” He lived in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy
Georg von Békésy
June 3, 1899, Budapest – June 12, 1972, Honolulu, HI
Georg von Békésy (György Békésy) received the 1961 Nobel Prize in Medicine “for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea.” He lived in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Békésy
Eugene P. Wigner
November 17, 1902, Budapest – January 1, 1995, Princeton, NJ
Eugene Wigner (Jeno Wigner) received the 1963 Nobel Prize in 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.” He lived in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_P._Wigner
Dennis Gábor
June 5, 1900, Budapest, – February 9, 1979, London
Dennis Gabor (Dénes Gábor) received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his invention and development of the holographic method.” He lived in Great Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Gabor
John C. Polányi
January 23, 1929, Berlin -
John Polanyi (János Polányi) is the son of natural scientist Mihály Polányi. He shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes.” He lives in Canada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Polanyi
George A. Olah
May 22, 1927, Budapest -
George Olah (György Oláh) received the 1994 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “for his contribution to carbocation chemistry.” He lives in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Olah
John C. Harsányi
May 29, 1920, Budapest – August 9, 2000, Berkeley, CA
John Harsanyi (János Harsányi) shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics for “pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games.” Relying on the theory designed by his fellow prize-winners, he showed how to analyse games when information was incomplete, creating the foundation for “information economics”. He lived in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harsanyi
Imre Kertész
November 9, 1929, Budapest -
He received the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature “for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history.” His books centre on the horrors of the 20th century: hatred, genocide and the inhumanity in human souls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Kertész
Avram Hershko
31 December 1937, Karcag, Hungary -
Born Herskó Ferenc in Karcag, Hungary, Hershko emigrated to Israel in 1950. Received his M.D. in 1965 and his Ph. D in 1969 from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion in Haifa. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation. The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway has a critical role in maintaining the homeostasis of cells and is believed to be involved in the development and progression of diseases such as: cancer, muscular and neurological diseases, immune and inflammatory responses.
