GREAT HUNGARIAN SCIENTISTS

Medicine
Bárány, Róbert

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Received the 1914 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus".

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Békésy, György

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Received the 1961 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea".

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Gajdusek, Daniel Carlton

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Received the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, "for discovering "new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases".

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Kaposi, Móric

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Discovered Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin tumor, caused by Human herpesvirus 8. It became known as one of the AIDS associated illness.

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Selye, János

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The term “stress” was essentially coined by János Selye in 1950. The publication of Stress stimulated scientists all over the world and to extend his observations.

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Semmelweis, Ignaz

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Discovered, by 1847, that cases of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever could be drastically cut by hand washing.

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Szentágothai, János

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His research concentrated on neural synapses and the functional organisation of cerebral cortex. He identified and described specific intracortical connections and he proposed the idea of cortical modular circuits clarifying the anatomical basis of the functional columns.
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Szent-györgyi, Albert

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Received the 1937 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, "for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid." He isolated Vitamin C from Hungarian paprika.
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