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Nobel laurates from BME

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Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz graduated in electrical engineering from BME in 1985. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first attosecond pulse of light to be produced and measured.

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Dennis Gabor

Hungarian physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, who was a student at BME between 1918 and 1920. In 1947 he invented holography, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.

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George Olah

Professor of chemistry György Oláh received his doctorate from BME in 1949 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry".

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Eugene Wigner

The world reknowned physicist enrolled at the BME in 1920. He received the Nobel Prize in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles."

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