Hungarian physicists

We have so far succeeded in establishing connections between surface tension and a number of physical properties, but have not yet found a relation between the former and any chemical constant. A very simple and general relation of this kind was first pointed out by the Hungarian physicist Eotvos and confirmed experimentally, for a large number of liquids, by Ramsay and Shields. If M is the molecular weight of a liquid and p its density, then... 

Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and Hungarian physicist Georg Karl von Hevesy Shiny metal resistant to corrosion and chemically similar to zirconium used chiefly to absorb thermal neutrons in nuclear reactors. 

In 1934 the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard filed a patent with the British Patent Office. It was based on an idea, nothing more - an idea about how to harness nuclear energy. The Joliot-Curies had shown that bombarding nuclei with particles can induce radioactive decay artificially. And the work of Bothe and Chadwick had demonstrated that some radioactive nuclei emit neutrons. So what would happen if neutrons induced nuclear decay that led to more neutrons The result might be a chain reaction a self-sustaining release of nuclear energy. 

Michael Polanyi, 1891-1976. Hungarian physicist who worked in Berlin and Manchester. His son, John Charles Polanyi, received the Noble Price in chemistry in 1986. 

Hafnium was discovered in 1923 by Danish chemist Dirk Coster working together with Hungarian physicist Gyorgy K. Hevesy. The electronic structure of hafnium had been predicted by Niels Bohr, and Coster and Hevesy found evidence of a substance whose pattern matched what had been predicted. The element predicted by Bohr was finally identified as being part of the mineral zircon by means of x-ray spectroscopy analysis. Due to its discovery in Copenhagen (whose ancient Latin name was Hafnia), the element was named hafnium. 

As a young man, Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard dreamed of saving the world. If we could find an element which is split by neutrons... ... 

This is an example where the so-called Jahn-Teller theorem comes into play. Hermann Jahn, a British physicist of German descent, and the perhaps more well known and outspoken Hungarian physicist Eduard Teller, proved that degeneracies cannot exist. All possible symmetries distort into a lower symmetry where the degeneracies have disappeared. This is the first-order Jahn-Teller theorem (FOJT). 

There are two useful empirical relationships that have been derived that attempt to quantify the surface tension-temperature relationship. The Eotvos relationship, named after the Hungarian physicist Lorand (Roland) Eotvos (1848-1919), has the form... 

Intensive, critical studies of a controversial topic also help to eliminate the possibility of errors. One of my favorite quotations is by George von Bekesy, a fellow Hungarian-born physicist who studied fundamental questions of the inner ear and hearing (Nobel Prize in medicine, 1961) ... 

One other classical pair of papers should be mentioned here. Eugene Wigner, an immigrant physicist of Hungarian birth, and his student Frederick Seitz whom we... 

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986), Hungarian-American physicist, discovers ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, while studying oxidation in plants. 

In 1923 Dutch physicist Dirk Coster (1889—1950) and Hungarian chemist George Charles de Hevesy (1889—1966) found element 72 by X-ray analysis. The element was present in a piece of Norwegian zircon. Zircon also contains the mineral zirconium. 

Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and Hungarian chemist George Charles de Hevesy rediscover hafnium and are generally recognized as discoverers of the element. 

Lakatos, Imre birth name Lipschitz (1922-1974) Hungarian mathematician, physicist and philosopher at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. In 1953 he fled to Vienna and finally to London to study at the University of Cambridge for a doctorate in philosophy. In 1960 Lakatos was appointed to the London School of Economics. Many works appeared after his death in editions. 

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