Nándor Balázs

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Nándor Balázs
Stony Brook University

Nándor Balázs (

(from 1995).

Early life and education

Balázs attended to the Rácz private primary school and was a classmate of

Janos Kemeny

. Nándor Balázs received a master's degree at the (1951).

Scientific career

After receiving his PhD, Balázs spent two years (1951 and 1952) as assistant to

During his life, Balázs had close friendships and working collaborations with Schroedinger, Paul Dirac (Dirac's wife, Margit Wigner, was Hungarian), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Eugene Wigner, and other major figures in 20th-century physics.

Balázs maintained contacts in his native Hungary and occasionally brought Hungarian physicists to the US. In his collaborations with people in Budapest (notably Béla Lukács and József Zimányi), he dealt with relativistic heavy-ion collisions and thus provided a connection between Stony Brook (a home of RHIC theory) and Hungary.

Papers: Effect of a gravitational field, due to a rotating body, on the plane of polarization of an electromagnetic wave. Phys. Rev. 110, 236–239 (1958)

EINSTEIN: Theory of Relativity. Gillispie (ed.) Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. IV, 319-332 (1971)

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