Híres Magyarok - Tudományok

(b. 5/31/1926, Budapest – d. 12/26/1992, Hanover, New Hampshire) Kemény had an impressive education and intellectual development in Hungary, but in 1940, to escape the Nazi tide, his family emigrated to New York City. Kemeny entered high school knowing virtually no English. He graduated three years later, first in his class and accepted at Princeton […]

(b.1881 Budapest – d.1963 Aachen, Germany) Von Kármán received his primary and secondary education in Budapest and was regarded as a mathematical prodigy. Later, parental guidance steered him in the field of engineering. After receiving a diploma in mechanical engineering he went on to study aeronautical engineering and received a PhD from the University of […]

(b. Dec 28, 1903, Budapest – d. Feb 8, 1957, Washington, DC) Growing up as a child genius of mathematics, he finished his secondary education in Budapest. He simultaneously studied chemical engineering in Germany and mathematics at the Technical University of Budapest, and received a diploma and a doctorate in the two fields. Von Neumann […]

(b. Feb 11, 1898, Budapest, d. May 30, 1964, La Jolla, California) Szilárd received his primary, secondary and part of his university education in Budapest. Later he went on to finish his engineering degree in Berlin, where also studied physics under Einstein and Planck. He received his doctorate in physics with the highest mark from […]

(b. Jan 15, 1908, Budapest, d. Sept 9. 2003, Stanford, California) After having finished his primary and secondary education, in 1926, Teller left Budapest to study chemical engineering in Karlsruhe, Germany. Later he got intrigued by the new theory of quantum mechanics. To study with Werner Heisenberg, who was in the forefront of the new physics […]