Leó Szilárd
18981964
Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and helped launch the Manhattan Project
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18981964
Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and helped launch the Manhattan Project
18931986
Hungarian biochemist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1937), credited with isolating vitamin C and discovering components of the citric acid cycle
19051983
Hungarian-British author, journalist, and political scientist known for his anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon and contributions to the concept of the Holon
19031957
Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist known for foundational work in quantum physics, game theory, and computer architecture
18741926
18851971
Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic who developed the theory of reification and contributed to Western Marxism
19082003
Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known as 'the father of the hydrogen bomb' and co-creator of the Teller–Ulam design
18931947
Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist known for his work in the sociology of knowledge and his seminal book, Ideology and Utopia
19001979
Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian-British physicist and inventor recognized for his pioneering invention and development of the holographic method
18851966
Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate recognized for developing radioactive tracers and co-discovering hafnium
19272017
Hungarian-American chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 for his transformative work on carbocation chemistry via superacids
19021995
Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who introduced group theory into physics and contributed significantly to the atomic bomb project, earning a Nobel Prize for his work on symmetry principles
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