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Title

Budapest scientific : a guidebook / István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai

Author

Hargittai, István.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

Hargittai, Magdolna.

Description

ix, 316 pages: illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This guidebook introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of science and scientists in Budapest - statues, busts, plaques, buildings, and other artefacts. According to the Hungarian-American Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, this metropolis at the crossroads of Europe has a special atmosphere of respect for science. It has been the venue of numerous scientific achievements and the cradle, literally, of many individuals who in Hungary, and even more beyond its borders, became world-renowned contributors to science and culture. Six of the eight chapters of the book cover the Hungarian Nobel laureates, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the university, the medical school, agricultural sciences, and technology and engineering. One chapter is about selected secondary schools from which seven Nobel laureates (Szent-Gyorgyi, de Hevesy, Wigner, Gabor, Harsanyi, Olah, and Kertesz) and the five Martians of Science (von Karman, Szilard, Wigner, von Neumann, and Teller) had graduated. The concluding chapter is devoted to scientist martyrs of the Holocaust. A special feature in surveying Hungarian science is the contributions of scientists that left their homeland before their careers blossomed and made their seminal discoveries elsewhere, especially in Great Britain and the United States. The book covers the memorabilia referring to both emigre scientists and those that remained in Hungary. The discussion is informative and entertaining. The coverage is based on the visible memorabilia, which are not necessarily proportional with achievements. Therefore, there is a caveat that one could not compile a history of science relying solely on the presence of the memorabilia.

Subject

• Science > Hungary > Budapest > History
• Scientists > Hungary > Budapest > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references and index.

Call Number

JFD 16-1981

ISBN

• 9780198719076
• 0198719078

LCCN

2014942678

OCLC

892889594

Author

Hargittai, István.

Title

Budapest scientific : a guidebook / István Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

sheet

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: BUDAPEST UNIV. OF TECHNOLOGY & ECONOMICS. TRAVEL GUIDE TO BULGARIAN SCIENTIFIC MEMORABILIA.

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Hargittai, Magdolna.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1981