Nándor Balázs

Nándor Balázs
Nándor Balázs
Born	Nándor László Balázs; July 7, 1926; Budapest, ; Hungary
Died	August 16, 2003 (aged 77); Setauket, New York, ; United States
Nationality	Hungarian ; American
Alma mater	University of Budapest ; University of Amsterdam
	Scientific career
Institutions	Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago; Princeton University; Stony Brook University

Nándor Balázs (Hungarian: Balázs Nándor László; July 7, 1926 in Budapest – August 16, 2003 in Setauket, New York)[1] waas a Hungarian-American physicist, external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 1995).

Early life and education

Balázs attended to the Rácz private primary school and was a classmate of Janos Kemeny. Nándor Balázs received a master's degree at the University of Budapest (1948). Balázs left the communist Hungary in 1949. He received a PhD at the University of Amsterdam (1951).

Scientific career

After receiving his PhD, Balázs spent two years (1951 and 1952) as assistant to Schroedinger at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,[2] one year (autumn 1952 through summer 1953) as assistant to Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and was Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Alabama during the years 1953–56. In 1961 he went to the Stony Brook University.[3] During his life, Balázs had close friendships and working collaborations with Schroedinger, Paul Dirac (Dirac's wife, Margit Wigner, was Hungarian), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Eugene Wigner, and other major figures in 20th-century physics.

Balázs maintained contacts in his native Hungary and occasionally brought Hungarian physicists to the US. In his collaborations with people in Budapest (notably Béla Lukács and József Zimányi), he dealt with relativistic heavy-ion collisions and thus provided a connection between Stony Brook (a home of RHIC theory) and Hungary.

Papers: Effect of a gravitational field, due to a rotating Body, on the plane of polarization of an electromagnetic wave. Phys. Rev. 110, 236–239 (1958)

References

de Zafra; Bergeman; Berry, Balian; Voros (2008). "Nándor Balázs" (PDF). Saclay, Paris: Institut de Physique Théorique. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
de Zafra, Robert; Bergeman, Tom; Berry, Michael; Balian, Roger; Voros, André (May 2004). "Obituary: Nándor Balázs". Physics Today. 57 (5): 74. Bibcode:2004PhT....57e..74D. doi:10.1063/1.1768679.
Staff (2000). "Balázs, Nándor". State University of New York, Sunnybrook. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2011.

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[zafra-1] Zafra; Bergeman; Berry, Balian; Voros (2008). "Nándor Balázs" (PDF). Saclay, Paris: Institut de Physique Théorique. Retrieved April 10, 2011.

[2] Zafra, Robert; Bergeman, Tom; Berry, Michael; Balian, Roger; Voros, André (May 2004). "Obituary: Nándor Balázs". Physics Today. 57 (5): 74. Bibcode:2004PhT....57e..74D. doi:10.1063/1.1768679.

[sunysb-3] Staff (2000). "Balázs, Nándor". State University of New York, Sunnybrook. Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 10, 2011.