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Eötvös Loránd University - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Typepublic
Established1949
DeanImre Kacskovics
Students4000
Location
Budapest
,
1117
,
Hungary
CampusUrban
Websitettk.elte.hu

The Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University was founded in 1949 and it is located in Budapest in the Lágymányos Campus.[1]

History

The Faculty of Natural Sciences was established on 16 May 1949. In order to develop and improve the teaching of natural sciences, a separate faculty, the Faculty of Natural Sciences was created from 22 departments and one institute. Before 1949, the Faculty of Humanities, Natural Sciences, Law and Political Science and Medicine constituted one big faculty.[2] The new faculty consisted of 5 institutes: the Institute of Biology, the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Geography, the Institute of Chemstry, and the Institute of Mathematics.[3]

In 2005, József Gál along with Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of the Jacobs University Bremen was awarded with the ig Nobel Prize.[4]

In 2010, our former student, Judit Nagy, died in a traffic accident at the age of 47. Nagy became a leading scientist in biochemistry at Imperial College London.[5]

In 2015, András Kovács, researcher at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, was interview by the Guardian on his group's discovery. His reserch team found a supervoid. In other words, the largest structure was discovered in the universe.[6]

Zsolt Demetrovics's study was featured on the Guardian entitled Cyberchondria and cyberhoarding: is internet fuelling new conditions?[7]

A study conducted by the research of the Faculty of Natural Sciences was featured in the BBC, entitled Separation from your phone 'makes you stressed within minutes.[8]

In 2021, László Lovász, along with Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was awarded with an Abel prize.[9][10]

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the dean, Imre Kacskovics, was often interviewed and worked as a consultant for the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán.[11][12][13]

The European Commission appointed three new members to the governing body of the leading European scientific organisation, including László Lovász, professor of mathematics at Faculty and former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on 1 March 2022.[14]

During the Russo-Ukranian War, free courses were offered for Ukranian students.[15]

In April 2022, new quantum processors were purchases by Eötvös Loránd University.[16]

According to the AD scientific index, among the top 10 most influential scientest at the Eötvös Loránd University are from the Faculty of Natural Sciences.[17]

In 2022, a study conducted by Laura Cuaya, from the Department of Ethology of the Institute of Biology, was featured in the BBC.[18] Another study, led by Attila Andics, was aslo featured in the BBC entitled Dogs can recognise their owners by their voice alone.[19][20]

On 1 July 2022, Katalin Karikó, Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms, was awarded with a honorary doctorate.[21]

Institutes

Lágymányosi Campus of the university, home of the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Informatics
Institute Department
Institute of Biology Department of Anatomy, Cell and Developmental Biology
Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Biological Anthropology
Department of Ethology
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology
Department of Genetics
Department of Immunology
Department of Microbiology
Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology
Department of Plant Systematics, Ecology and Theoretical Biology
Department of Plant Anatomy
Institute of Physics Department of Materials Physics
Department of Atomic Physics
Department of Biological Physics
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of Physics of Complex Systems
Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Centre Of Geography
Centre Of Earth Sciences
Institute of Chemistry Department of Analytical Chemistry
Department of Physical Chemistry
Department of Organic Chemistry
Department of Inorganic Chemistry
Institute of Mathematics Department of Algebra and Number Theory
Department of Analysis
Department of Applied Analysis and Computational Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
Department of Geometry
Mathematics Teaching and Education Centre
Department of Operations Research
Department of Probability Theory and Statistics

Deans of the Faculty of Natural Sciences

Notable researchers

Institute Researcher
Institute of Biology János Balogh, Endre Dudich, Ádám Miklósi, Rebeka Szabó, Eörs Szathmáry
Institute of Physics Gyula Dávid, Loránd Eötvös, Imre Fényes, Lajos Jánossy, Ányos Jedlik, Frigyes Károlyházy, György Marx, Károly Nagy, Gábor Takács, László Tisza, Tamás Vicsek
Institute of Geography and Geology Béla Balázs, László Egyed, Ferenc Horváth, Béla Nagy
Institute of Chemistry István T. Horváth, András Perczel, Péter Surján, Carl von Than, Gergely Tóth, Lajos Winkler, Géza Zemplén
Institute of Mathematics László Babai, Zsolt Baranyai, József Beck, Károly Bezdek, Béla Bollobás, Ákos Császár, Imre Csiszár, Lipót Fejér, László Fejes Tóth, András Frank, László Fuchs, István Gyöngy, András Hajnal , György Hajós, Gábor Halász, Gyula O. H. Katona, Péter Komjáth, Lajos Pósa, Alfréd Rényi, Miklós Simonovits, Tamás Szőnyi, Vera T. Sós, Katalin Vesztergombi

Famous alumni

Pál Erdős in 1992

The following is a list of natural scientist who achieved success worldwide:[23][24]

References

  1. ^ "ELTE Faculty of Science". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  2. ^ "Educational units". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  3. ^ "The Faculty's structure". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  4. ^ "Penguins under pressure win Ig Nobel for physicists". the Guardian. 2005-10-07. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  5. ^ Cass, Katherine Brown and Tony (2010-11-09). "Judit Nagy obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  6. ^ "Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe is ... a big hole". the Guardian. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  7. ^ "Cyberchondria and cyberhoarding: is internet fuelling new conditions?". the Guardian. 2018-10-08. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  8. ^ "Separation from your phone 'makes you stressed within minutes'". BBC News. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  9. ^ "László Lovász received the Abel Prize". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  10. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (2021). "Abel Prize celebrates union of mathematics and computer science". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-021-00694-9. PMID 33731906. S2CID 232302960. Archived from the original on 5 May 2021. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
  11. ^ "It's only a matter of time, and here's the fourth wave - warns the immunologist". The Budapest Herald. 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  12. ^ "Sixth Wave of Coronavirus May Arrive in Hungary in a Few Months". Hungary Today. 2022-06-22. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  13. ^ "Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had talks with heads of research teams about domestic pharmaceutical production – miniszterelnok.hu". miniszterelnok.hu. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  14. ^ "László Lovász among the leaders of the European Research Council". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  15. ^ "Free natural sciences courses to university students from Ukraine". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  16. ^ "The new quantum processor is delivered to ELTE". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  17. ^ "Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Scientist and University Rankings 2022 - AD Scientific Index 2022". www.adscientificindex.com. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  18. ^ "Understanding human language gives dogs". Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  19. ^ "Dogs can recognise their owners by their voice alone - CBBC Newsround". Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  20. ^ https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/que-dogs-brains-can-tell-spanish-hungarian-study-finds-2022-01-06/
  21. ^ "Scientific symposium with Katalin Karikó at ELTE TTK". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  22. ^ "Kacskovics Imre lett a Természettudományi Kar dékánja". elte.hu. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  23. ^ "Great natural scientists of ELTE". ttk.elte.hu/en (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
  24. ^ "Híres diákjaink". ttk.elte.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2022-06-29.
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