Archive | My Story

Due to my family background, my father was the Chief of Police in Kispest prior WWII, my option for a career were limited. Eventually I was admitted to the Budapest Technical University in Mechanical Engineering and received my degree in 1955 in Mechanical Engineering specializing for chemical industry Due to my involvement in the revolution […]

Actually, I am most proud of becoming a world-known expert in hot plasma physics and radiation transport. This happened over a time of about 3 decades. It started in 1972, when after a consultation with my research director, Edward Teller, I embraced on a project that became very important. I did a number of publications, […]

I was born in Transylvania Rumania as a Hungarian. During WWII, at the time North Transylvania became again Hungary, my family moved to Budapest, Hungary. There we survived the siege of Budapest and the total destruction of a war. We lost everything during the bombardments and fighting going on from house to house but we […]

Bela Hargittay was a twelve year old boy living in the heart of Budapest, and who loved to play soccer, when the 1956 Hungarian Revolution quickly disrupted his life and the life of his family forever and set him on an entirely unexpected journey to America. Bela was living with his mother, Olga, and his […]

Thomas was born in Hungary in Szekesfehervar. He attended Middle School at the Franciscan Boarding School in Esztergom. In 1943, he was admitted to the Gabor Aron Military Academy. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, the school moved near the western border of the country. As the Russian Army attacked Hungary in 1944 and […]

Dr. Jozsef M. Berty is the holder of a D.Sc. degree in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Budapest. He has retired from Union Carbide in 1976 after almost 20 years with the company, and became president of his own company, Berty Reaction Engineers, Ltd.He was also a professor of chemical engineering at the […]