List of University of Szeged people

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The list of University of Szeged people includes notable graduates and nongraduates; professors; and administrators affiliated with the University of Szeged, located in Szeged, Hungary.

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István Bibó (1911-79)  | political scientist; member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1946-49)  | doctor's degree from the University of Law, Szeged (1934); lecturer (1940)  |
Zsolt Bor (born 1949)  | Bolyai Prize laureate scientist; member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics; one of inventors of the Rhinolight phototherapeutical apparatus (hay fever therapy)  | MSc, PhD, D.Sc; professor  | [1][2]
Mohammad Sharif Chattar (1935-2007)  | Pakistani botanist and forester  | won a scholarship and went to Hungary for higher studies; obtained a PhD in botany from the university  |
Sándor Csörgő (1947-2008)  | highly cited researcher of mathematics; probability and mathematical statistics, asymptotic theory; member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | professor  | [3]
Gábor Fodor (1915-2000)  |  | obtained a PhD, summa cum laude, in organic chemistry, physical chemistry and mineralogy at the university (1937); demonstrator (1935-1938); associate professor (1945-1950); professor of organic chemistry (1950-1957); received the Diamond Diploma in honor of the 60th anniversary of the receipt of his PhD from the university  |
Alfréd Haar (1885-1933)  | in 1932, introduced a measure on groups, now called the Haar measure, which allows an analogue of Lebesgue integrals to be defined on locally compact topological groups; Haar wavelet | together with Frigyes Riesz, made a major mathematical centre from the university  |
Attila József (1905-1937)  | considered to be one of the greatest Hungarian writers of the 20th century  | entered the university in 1924 to study Hungarian and French literature; was expelled from the university because of a revolutionary poem, "Tiszta szívvel" ("With a Pure Heart") - the poem was attacked by the influential professor Antal Horger |
Gyula Juhász (1883-1937)  | Hungarian poet, journalist, educator  | namesake of Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College |
László Kalmár (1905-1976)  | considered the founding father of both logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary  | professor  |
Katalin Karikó (1955)  | 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient, along with Drew Weissman for their research on in vitro-transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein replacement therapy.  | biochemist  |
Tibor Radó (1895-1965)  | Hungarian mathematician; research fellow in Germany for the Rockefeller Foundation; lectured at Harvard University and the Rice Institute and the mathematics faculty of Ohio State University; published: "On the Problem of Plateau", "Subharmonic Functions", in the Bell System Technical Journal the Busy Beaver problem  | received a doctorate from the university (1923)  |
Frigyes Riesz (1880-1956)
| his theorem, now called the Riesz-Fischer theorem, which he proved in 1907, is fundamental in the Fourier analysis of Hilbert space; Riesz representation theorem, F. and M. Riesz theorem, Riesz-Thorin theorem | in Szeged in 1922, Riesz set up the János Bolyai Mathematical Institute in a joint venture with Haar; became editor of the newly founded journal of the institute Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum; received honorary doctorates from the university as well as the University of Budapest and the University of Paris | [4]
Camille Sandorfy (born 1920)  | Canadian quantum chemist; member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science; notable for both his works in spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry; a pioneer in the molecular orbital calculations on saturated hydrocarbons and excited aromatic molecules; performed extensive works in both vibrational and electronic spectroscopy; investigated in particular the effect of hydrogen bonding on the anharmonicity of vibrations; made also applications of biological interest  | received a Bachelor of Science (1943) and PhD in chemistry (1946) from the university  |
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986)  | biochemist; noted the anti-scorbutic activity of ascorbic acid and discovered that paprika (capsicum annuum) was a rich source of vitamin C; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1937) "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"; vitamin P | made Chair of Medical Chemistry (1930); made Chair in Organic Chemistry (1935); from 1987 to 2000 the Szeged Medical University bore his name.  | [5]
Antal Szerb (1901-1945)  | writer; former President of the Hungarian Literary Academy; twice awarded the Baumgarten Prize | professor of literature
Ernő Duda (1968)  | entrepreneur, co-founder of Copy General Hungary, Antikvarium.hu and Solvo Biotechnology,[6] former vice president of the Hungarian Skeptic Society; awarded the Dénes Gábor Prize[7] | assistant professor of business and entrepreneurship  |

## See also

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* Biography portal
* Hungary portal
* Lists portal

* List of Hungarian people

## References

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1. ^ "Bor, Zsolt".
2. ^ "Rhinolight – Az allergiás nátha klinikailag igazolt fényterápiája".
3. ^ "[ISI Highly Cited Researchers Version 1.1]". Archived from the original on 23 November 2005.
4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 August 2005. Retrieved 10 July 2005.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. ^ "Medicine 1937". Archived from the original on 4 December 2004.
6. ^ "Portrait of the Month - Ernő Duda" (PDF). CEO Collaborative Forum. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
7. ^ "Ifj. Duda Ernő" (in Hungarian). Gábor Dénes-díjasok Klubja. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

## External links

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* Scientists of the University of Szeged (in Hungarian)