Hungary: Culture#

World Heritage#

Nobel Prize Winners (9)#

Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country.
NameCategoryYearMotivation
George de HevesyChemistry1943"for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
Dennis GaborPhysics1971"for his invention and development of the holographic method"
John C. HarsanyiEconomics1994"for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
Avram HershkoChemistry2004"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
Imre KertészLiterature2002"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
George A. OlahChemistry1994"for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
Georg von BékésyMedicine1961"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Albert von Szent-Györgyi NagyrápoltMedicine1937"for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
Eugene Paul WignerPhysics1963"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"