This guidebook introduces the reader to the visible memorabilia of
science and scientists in Budapest - statues, busts, plaques,
buildings, and other artefacts. According to the Hungarian-American
Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyoergyi, this metropolis at the
crossroads of Europe has a special atmosphere of respect for
science. It has been the venue of numerous scientific achievements
and the cradle, literally, of many individuals who in Hungary, and
even more beyond its borders, became world-renowned contributors to
science and culture. Six of the eight chapters of the book cover
the Hungarian Nobel laureates, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
the university, the medical school, agricultural sciences, and
technology and engineering. One chapter is about selected secondary
schools from which seven Nobel laureates (Szent-Gyoergyi, de
Hevesy, Wigner, Gabor, Harsanyi, Olah, and Kertesz) and the five
"Martians of Science" (von Karman, Szilard, Wigner, von Neumann,
and Teller) had graduated. The concluding chapter is devoted to
scientist martyrs of the Holocaust. A special feature in surveying
Hungarian science is the contributions of scientists that left
their homeland before their careers blossomed and made their
seminal discoveries elsewhere, especially in Great Britain and the
United States. The book covers the memorabilia referring to both
emigre scientists and those that remained in Hungary. The
discussion is informative and entertaining. The coverage is based
on the visible memorabilia, which are not necessarily proportional
with achievements. Therefore, there is a caveat that one could not
compile a history of science relying solely on the presence of the
memorabilia.
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