István Hargittai#

István Hargittai
(Photo: Gyorgy Wessely, Budapest)

• Professor Emeritus, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 1991 University Professor, Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 2000 - present Head of the George A. Olah Ph.D. School, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 2007 - present Head of Materials Structure and Modeling Research Group of HAS at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 2008 - present Chair, Award Committee, Faculty of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 1993 - 2006 Research Professor of HAS at Eötvös University
• 1986 - 2006 Head of Structural Chemistry Research Group, HAS, at Eötvös University
• 1979 - 1986 Head of Department of Structural Studies, Research Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, HAS
• 1991 - 1996 Head of Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest Technical University
• 1965 - 1973 Research Scientist, Center for Studies on Chemical Structures, HAS

• 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

• 1977 Academy prize for authors, Budapest
• 1988 Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• 1992 Dr. honoris causa, Moscow University
• 1993 Presentation and Introduction to the Academy of Sciences, Institut France, Paris
• 1993 Full Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 1994 Member, Academia Europaea (London)
• 1994 Kaskan Lectureship, State University of New York at Binghamton
• 1996 First George A. Olah Lectureship, USC, Los Angeles
• 1996 Szechenyi State Prize of Hungary (shared w/M. Hargittai)
• 2000 D.Sc. honoris causa, University of North Carolina
• 2001 Kentucky Colonel of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
• 2003 Erdey László Prize, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• 2004 Dr. honoris causa, Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2005 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow
• 2006 Medals of the U.S. Department of Defense Director of Defense Research and Engineering

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