István Hargittai#
Membership Number: | 1601 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1994 |
Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
Homepage(s): | http://istvan.hargittai.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 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
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
- 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