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Born in Szeged; 1937-1952, grades K to 12 in Kaposvár; studied chemistry 1952-until Nov. 1956 in Budapest at Eötvös Lorand Tudomanyegyetem, TTK faculty. Escaped to Austria on Nov. 23, 1956; graduate student of Nobel Laureate Paul Karrer at Zurich University; received annual price of the Swiss Science Foundation on the structure of the curare poison received a prize of the […]

Miklos Peller was born in the city of Eger on August 30, 1940. Later, his family moved to the western city of Szombathely where his father was appointed to be the principal of a Gimnazium (equivalent to High School). He was a regular altar boy in the Cathedral of Szombathely since the age of 7. […]

Dr. Bulcsu Veress was born in 1941, in Budapest from educated parents who were of Szekler, Rumania at that time, heritage. They lived on Attila Ut, across from Vermezo Ter. His early reading interests, due to the lack of other sources, was the publication of DISZ (Democratic – read Communist – Young People’s Coalition), which […]

Born in Szeged, became orphaned at age 12; from age 10-13 student at Baar-Madas Protestant Girl school in Budapest. After its nationalization became ward of the state. My three years at this school were the most important and formative experiences of my early years. I was deported at 16; finished gimnazium in Debrecen, accepted into Kossuth Univ. […]

I studied German for four years in high school, but the college I attended did not offer it, so I decided to try Spanish. By this time the audio- lingual method of language teaching became popular, and I learned Spanish so quickly that I decided to major in it. I became a Spanish teacher at […]

Udvar-Hazy gave a US $66 million grant to the Smithsonian Institution that allowed the U.S. National Air and Space Museum to build the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center annex at Washington Dulles International Airport. The annex houses more than 120 aircraft and 140 space-exploration exhibits as of 2006, and also includes the Space Shuttle Discovery. Plans […]