Nandor Balazs

The native form of this personal name is Balázs Nándor. This article uses the Western name order.

Nandor Balazs
Nandor Balazs Nandor Balazs
Born	July 7, 1926(1926-07-07) Budapest, Hungary
Died	August 16, 2003(2003-08-16) (aged 77) Setauket, New York, United States
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	Hungarian American
Institutions	Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago Princeton University Stony Brook University
Alma mater	University of Budapest University of Amsterdam

Nandor Balazs (Hungarian: Balázs Nándor László, Budapest, July 7, 1926—Setauket, New York, August 16, 2003)^[1] Hungarian-American physicist, external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 1995).

Early life and education

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

Scientific career

After receiving his PhD Nandor spent two years as assistant to Schroedinger at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, one year as assistant to 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.^[2] During his life, Prof. Balazs 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.

Professor Balazs 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 Jozsef Zimányi), he dealt with relativistic heavy-ion collisions and thus provided a connection between Stony Brook (a home of RHIC theory) and Hungary.

References

1. ^ de Zafra; Bergeman; Berry, Balian; Voros} (2008 [last update]). "Nandor Balazs" (PDF). Saclay, Paris: Institut de Physique Théorique. http://ipht.cea.fr/Docspht/articles/t03/170/public/publi.pdf. Retrieved April 10, 2011. 
2. ^ Staff (2000 [last update]). "Balazs, Nandor". State University of New York, Sunnybrook. http://felix.physics.sunysb.edu/PAhist/nbalazs.html. Retrieved April 10, 2011. 

Persondata
Name	Nándor László, Balázs
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian-American physicist
Date of birth	July 7, 1926
Place of birth	Budapest
Date of death	August 16, 2003
Place of death	Setauket, New York