More about Hungarians and Hungary 🇭🇺

Hungary is not a big country neither for land nor for population, which is under 10 million. Despite of this there are more than 10 Nobel-prized Hungarians. There is no excact number, because most of them were no longer in Hungary when the received the Nobel-prize.

So lets see them (by category and in cronological order):

"Pure" Hungarians, who have received the prize for their works in Hungary:

1) Albert Szent-Györgyi (medicine) (for the vitamin C)

2) Imre Kertész (literature)

Hungarians worked in foreign countries:

3) Fülöp Lénárd (Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard) (physics) (it's a shame that he had a role in discrediting Albert Einstein)

4) Gyögy Hevesi (chemical)

5) György Békésy(Georg von Békésy) (medicine)

6) Jenő Wigner (Eugene Paul „E. P.” Wigner) (physics)

7) Dénes Gábor (Dennis Gabor) (physics) (for the holography)

8) János Harsányi (John Harsanyi) (economics)

9) György Oláh (George Andrew Olah) (chemistry)

10) Ferenc Herskó (Avram Hershko) (chemistry)

Hungarians at the time of Austro-Hungarian Empire:

11) Róbert Bárány (Robert Bárány) (medicine)

12) Richárd Zsigmondy (Richard Adolf Zsigmondy) (economics)

With Hungarian origins:

13) Milton Friedman (economics)

14) Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (medicine)

15) Elie Wiesel (peace-prize)

16) János Polányi (John Charles Polányi) (chemistry)

17) Louise Elisabeth Glück (literature)

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