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6 unusual facts about Hungarian Academy of Sciences


Bertalan Szemere

Szemere's diary made him famous and he became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Budapest Semesters in Mathematics

The coursework is primarily mathematical and conducted in English by Hungarian professors, drawn primarily from Eötvös Loránd University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Gusztáv Batthyány

In 1838 Batthyány donated his entire library including the Rohonc Codex to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

János Garay

He returned to Pest in 1839, when he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Włodzimierz Kuperberg

He was honored again at Auburn by a five-year Alumni Professor chairship in 1996, and again by an Erdős Professorship in 1999, which he used to visit the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

Zoltán Lajos Bay

In 1981, he was elected as an honorary member into the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.


Acta Mathematica Hungarica

The editor-in-chief is Ákos Császár, the editors are the mathematician members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Imrich Chlamtac

Chlamtac holds several honorary appointments including the Bruno Kessler Honorary Professor, University of Trento, Italy, the Sackler Professorship at Tel Aviv University, Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the "University Professorship" at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Hungary, a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Membership of the BUTE Senate.

Lajos Jánossy

Member (1950) and, later, vice-president (1961 to 1973) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1961), the Royal Irish Academy of Sciences (1948), the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic (1954).

Ludovica Military Academy

Lajos Kiss (1922–2003) linguist, Slav specialist, member of Hungarian Academy of Sciences.


see also

Ágnes Heller

In his response, the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, József Pálinkás assured the signatories that the Hungarian members of the scientific community are not harassed due to their scientific work.

András Róna-Tas

In 1957, he earned his dr.univ degree, in 1964 he defended his candidates (CSc) degree, and finally in 1971 he earned a doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) with his thesis "The Theory of Linguistic Affinity and the Linguistic Relations between the Chuvash and Mongol Languages", published as Linguistic Affinity in 1978.

Zebegény

Ferenc Glatz, former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences