Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (1862-1947)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1905 „for his work on cathode rays”
Robert Bárány (1876-1936)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1914 "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus"
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865-1929)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1925, "for his demonstration of the heterogenous nature of colloid solutions and for the methods he used, which have since become fundamental in modern colloid chemistry"
Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrápolt (1893-1986)
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"
George de Hevesy (1885-1966)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1943 "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes"
Georg von Békésy (1899-1972)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1961 "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea"
Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963 „for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles”
Dennis Gabor (1900-1979)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1971 "for his invention and development of the holographic method"
Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1976 "for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy"
D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976 "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases"
John C. Polanyi (1929- )
with Dudley R. Herschbach and Yuan T. Lee- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986 "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1986
George A. Olah (1927-2017)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry"
John C. Harsanyi (1920- 2000)
with John F. Nash Jr. and Reinhard Selten - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1994 "for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games"
Imre Kertész (1929-2016)
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history"
Katalin Karikó (1955-)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2023, shared with Drew Weissman, for their biochemical discoveries that enabled the development of an effective mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19.
Ferenc Krausz (1962-)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023, shared with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier, for their experimental methods to generate attosecond light pulses that can be used to study the dynamics of electrons in matter.