Budapest, Hungary

Hungarian-American physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction and helped launch the Manhattan Project

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1937), credited with isolating vitamin C and discovering components of the citric acid cycle

Hungarian-British author, journalist, and political scientist known for his anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon and contributions to the concept of the Holon

Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist known for foundational work in quantum physics, game theory, and computer architecture

Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian-British physicist and inventor recognized for his pioneering invention and development of the holographic method

Hungarian-American theoretical physicist known as 'the father of the hydrogen bomb' and co-creator of the Teller–Ulam design

Hungarian radiochemist and Nobel laureate recognized for developing radioactive tracers and co-discovering hafnium

Hungarian-German philosopher and sociologist known for his work in the sociology of knowledge and his seminal book, Ideology and Utopia

Hungarian-American chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 for his transformative work on carbocation chemistry via superacids

Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel laureate recognized for fundamental symmetry principles in atomic and elementary particle theory

Prolific Hungarian-American film director who shaped Hollywood's Golden Age with classics like Casablanca and The Charge of the Light Brigade