List of Hungarian Nobel laureates
Appearance
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 |
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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 their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes" |
1994 | George Olah | Chemistry | "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry" |
1994 | John Harsanyi | Economics | "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" |
References
- ^ "All Nobel laureates from Hungary". www.mta.hu. Retrieved 17 October 2015.