The list of University of Szeged people includes notable graduates and nongraduates; professors; and administrators affiliated with the University of Szeged, located in Szeged, Hungary.

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| István Bibó (1911–79)

| political scientist; member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1946–49)

| doctor's degree from the University of Law, Szeged (1934); lecturer (1940)

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| Zsolt Bor (born 1949)

| Bolyai Prize laureate scientist; member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics; one of inventors of the Rhinolight phototherapeutical apparatus (hay fever therapy)

| MSc, PhD, D.Sc; professor

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| Mohammad Sharif Chattar (1935–2007)

| Pakistani botanist and forester

| won a scholarship and went to Hungary for higher studies; obtained a PhD in botany from the university

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| Sándor Csörgő (1947–2008)

| highly cited researcher of mathematics; probability and mathematical statistics, asymptotic theory; member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

| professor

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| Gábor Fodor (1915–2000)

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| | obtained a PhD, summa cum laude, in organic chemistry, physical chemistry and mineralogy at the university (1937); demonstrator (1935–1938); associate professor (1945–1950); professor of organic chemistry (1950–1957); received the Diamond Diploma in honor of the 60th anniversary of the receipt of his PhD from the university

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| Alfréd Haar (1885–1933)

| in 1932, introduced a measure on groups, now called the Haar measure, which allows an analogue of Lebesgue integrals to be defined on locally compact topological groups; Haar wavelet

| together with Frigyes Riesz, made a major mathematical centre from the university

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| Attila József (1905–1937)

| considered to be one of the greatest Hungarian writers of the 20th century

| entered the university in 1924 to study Hungarian and French literature; was expelled from the university because of a revolutionary poem, "Tiszta szívvel" ("With a Pure Heart") the poem was attacked by the influential professor Antal Horger

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| Gyula Juhász (1883–1937)

| Hungarian poet, journalist, educator

| namesake of Juhász Gyula Teacher Training College

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| László Kalmár (1905–1976)

| considered the founding father of both logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary

| professor

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| Katalin Karikó (1955)

| 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recipient, along with Drew Weissman for their research on in vitro-transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein replacement therapy.

| biochemist

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| Tibor Radó (1895–1965)

| Hungarian mathematician; research fellow in Germany for the Rockefeller Foundation; lectured at Harvard University and the Rice Institute and the mathematics faculty of Ohio State University; published: "On the Problem of Plateau", "Subharmonic Functions", in the Bell System Technical Journal the Busy Beaver problem

| received a doctorate from the university (1923)

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| Frigyes Riesz (1880&ndash;1956)<br />50px

| his theorem, now called the Riesz-Fischer theorem, which he proved in 1907, is fundamental in the Fourier analysis of Hilbert space; Riesz representation theorem, F. and M. Riesz theorem, Riesz-Thorin theorem

| in Szeged in 1922, Riesz set up the János Bolyai Mathematical Institute in a joint venture with Haar; became editor of the newly founded journal of the institute Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum; received honorary doctorates from the university as well as the University of Budapest and the University of Paris

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| Camille Sandorfy (born 1920)

| Canadian quantum chemist; member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science; notable for both his works in spectroscopy and theoretical chemistry; a pioneer in the molecular orbital calculations on saturated hydrocarbons and excited aromatic molecules; performed extensive works in both vibrational and electronic spectroscopy; investigated in particular the effect of hydrogen bonding on the anharmonicity of vibrations; made also applications of biological interest

| received a Bachelor of Science (1943) and PhD in chemistry (1946) from the university

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| Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893&ndash;1986)

| biochemist; noted the anti-scorbutic activity of ascorbic acid and discovered that paprika (capsicum annuum) was a rich source of vitamin C; recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1937) "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"; vitamin P

| made Chair of Medical Chemistry (1930); made Chair in Organic Chemistry (1935); from 1987 to 2000 the Szeged Medical University bore his name.

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| Antal Szerb (1901&ndash;1945)

| writer; former President of the Hungarian Literary Academy; twice awarded the Baumgarten Prize

| professor of literature

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| Ernő Duda (1968)

| entrepreneur, co-founder of Copy General Hungary, Antikvarium.hu and Solvo Biotechnology, former vice president of the Hungarian Skeptic Society; awarded the Dénes Gábor Prize

| assistant professor of business and entrepreneurship

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See also

  • List of Hungarian people

References

  • Scientists of the University of Szeged (in Hungarian)