George de Hevesy lecture

In 2008 the first George de Hevesy lectures took place in both Hungary and Germany. The lecture was established in 2007 by the Magyar Kémikusok Egyesülete (Association of Hungarian Chemists) and the German Chemical Society and has been taking place in both countries since then.

The namesake of the lecture George de Hevesy was a Hungarian chemist who also researched and taught in Germany. De Hevesy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943 for developing the radioactive indicator method. He is the discoverer of hafnium and is considered the father of nuclear medicine, which still makes him an important scientist today.

Excellent scientists so far

2018 - Zoltán Kónya, Szeged / Hungary

Professor Zoltán Kónya's research is in the field of the production, characterization and modification of various nanostructures. The title of his lecture at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg was ?Beyond the nanoparticles: the role of sub-nanosized metal species in heterogeneous catalysis?.

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2012 - Gerald Brezesinski, Potsdam

Professor Gerald Brezesinski conducts research at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in the field of lipids and phospholipids. His focus is on the area of lipid monolayers.

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