István Hargittai#
István Hargittai
(Photo: Gyorgy Wessely, Budapest)
(Photo: Gyorgy Wessely, Budapest)
| Email: | istvan.hargittai 'at' gmail.com |
| Membership Number: | 1601 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Username: | ihargittai |
Present and Previous Positions
- University Professor, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1991-
- Head of the George A. Olah Ph.D. School, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2000-
- Head of Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of HAS at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2007-
- Chair, Award Committee, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2008-
- Research Professor of HAS at Eötvös University, 1993-2006
- Head of Structural Chemistry Research Group, HAS, at Eötvös University, 1986-2006
- Head of Department of Structural Studies, Research Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, HAS, 1979-1986
- Head of Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest Technical University,1991-96
- Research Scientist, Center for Studies on Chemical Structures, HAS, 1965-1973
Fields of Scholarship
- structural chemistry
- sulfur and silicon stereochemistry
- coordination compounds
- metal halides
- unstable species
- high-temperature chemistry
- gas-phase electron diffraction
- combined use of experimental techniques and theoretical chemistry
- gas/solid structure differences
- intramolecular and intermolecular interactions
- models of molecular geometry
- history and culture of chemistry
Honours and Awards
- Academy prize for authors, Budapest, 1977
- Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1988
- Dr. honoris causa, Moscow University, 1992
- Presentation and Introduction to the Academy of Sciences, Institut France, Paris, 1993
- Full Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1993
- Member, Academia Europaea (London), 1994
- Kaskan Lectureship, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1994
- First George A. Olah Lectureship, USC, Los Angeles, 1996
- Szechenyi State Prize of Hungary (shared w/M. Hargittai), 1996
- D.Sc. honoris causa, University of North Carolina, 2000
- Kentucky Colonel of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 2001
- Erdey László Prize, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2003
- Dr. honoris causa, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow, 2005
- Medals of the U.S. Department of Defense Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 2006
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