Hungarians have won 13 Nobel Prizes since 1905. The following is a complete list of Nobel laureates from Hungary:[1]
Winners
Year
Winner
Field
Contribution
1905
Philipp Lenard
Physics
"for his work on cathode rays"
1914
Robert Barany
Medicine
"for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"
1925
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Chemistry
"for his demonstration of the heterogeneous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry"
1937
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Medicine
"for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"
1943
George de Hevesy
Chemistry
"for his work on the use ofisotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
1961
Georg von Békésy
Medicine
"for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
1963
Eugene Wigner
Physics
"for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"
1971
Dennis Gabor
Physics
"for his invention and development of the holographic method"
1986
John Polanyi
Chemistry
"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
1994
George Olah
Chemistry
"for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
1994
John Harsanyi
Economics
"pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
2002
Imre Kertész
Literature
"for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
2004
Avram Hershko
Chemistry
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"
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1 Nobel Memorial Prize (not one of the original Nobel Prizes).