Solyom, Jeno

Physicist

He was born on 27 November 1940 in Kolozsvár. He studied at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE) between 1959 and 1964. After graduating with honours, he began working in the newly formed group to study solid-state theory at the Solid-state Physics Laboratory of the Central Research Institute of Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). This institute has since transformed and has been renamed several times- the current name is the Solid-state Physics and Optics Research Institute of MTA. He remains at the institution, since 1991 as research professor. He has been a part-time university professor at ELTE since 1992. In 1970 he defended his post-graduate thesis. Based on his secondary school and university results and his thesis he was awarded a doctorate "sub auspiciis" In 1978 he became a doctor of physics. In 1987 he became a corresponding member of the Academy and a full member in 1993. He has spent a total of five years as a visiting researcher at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble and between 1978 and 1980 he was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and in 1984-85 and 1991-92 at the University of Lausanne. In 1980 he was awarded the State Prize.

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