List of Hungarian Nobel laureates
Appearance
The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to Mankind."
Hungarians have won 13 Nobel Prizes since 1905. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates from Hungary:[1]
Hungarian laureates
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, Kingdom of Romania
- 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]
- Robert F. Furchgott, Hungarian-Jewish father; grandfather from Sarlóska, Nyitra county, grandmother from Nyitra, Nyitra county, Kingdom of Hungary[5][better source needed]
- Herta Müller, ethnic German, grandparents born in the Kingdom of Hungary
- Stefan Hell, ethnic German, grandparents born in the Kingdom of Hungary
- Hugh David Politzer, Hungarian-Jewish father Aladár (Ali) born 1910 in Pozsony in the Kingdom of Hungary.
- Karl von Frisch Austrian, very distant ancestor on his mothers side: Abraham Israel Ofenheimer born in Óbuda (Budapest)
- Carl Ferdinand Cori Austrian.
Ancestor on his mothers side: Her grand-father:dr.med. Franz Wilhelm Lippich, was born in Kingdom of Hungary His mothers father was dr.med. Kastenholz Honorius Vilmos (Honorius Wilhelm Kastenholz, Sopron, 1722. – ?)
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.
- ^ "Bertha Furchgott".