Author Archives: Ágnes Kittel

Cancellation of HSM2020

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Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the uncertainty surrounding the situation, HSM board finally decided to cancel  this year’s conference which was planned between May 21-23, 2020 in Siófok. Thank you very much to all the applicants for honoring us with your trust and we are very sorry that we will not be able to meet you this May. Of… Teljes cikk »

Honor of János Lábár

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This spring is not only about trouble it has brought good, too. Dr. János Lábár, the President of the Scientific Council at MFA, his workplace, a colleague of ours and whose very lucid, well-presented lectures we could  enjoyed at several HSM conferences, received a high state award on 15th of March this year. Wikipedia also explains the reasoning behind the… Teljes cikk »

Katalin Solymosi is elected as YAE member

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Those who have only known about Academia Europae as an organization where the membership is an honor and one can be nominated irrespectively of the area of research, now have the opportunity to be familiar with the Young Academy of Europe, which was founded in 2012. Among the prerequisites of its membership are the professional excellence and active and effective… Teljes cikk »

Our new Dennis Gabor awardees

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On December 17, 2019, for the 31st time, the Gábor Dénes Prize, established by the NOVOFER Foundation, was presented. Our litle web site reported about the previous event in 2018, because then our two fellow members  received this high recognition. Now Csaba Balázsi received the Gábor Dénes Prize, and Dezső Szigethy received the Gábor Dénes Life Achievement Award. Excerpts from… Teljes cikk »

A very special birthday

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Thursday is just like another weekday, it is full of lectures at Semmelweis University. However, Nov 21, 2019, was a special Thursday. In spite of the fact that education had to be continued, on the afternoon of the 21st, everyone who could visit the second-floor lecture hall of the Institute of Anatomy to congratulate the 90 years old Dr. Pál… Teljes cikk »

Invited lecture and poster award at the MCM2019 in Belgrade

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This year’s Multinational Congress on Microscopy (MCM) was held between September 15-20 2019, in Belgrade. The number of Hungarian participants was not too many, though we couldn’t complain, as we had invited speakers and chairs, and we even got a plenary presentation. András Kovács had a great lecture on his new achievements on magnetic nanostructures. His precisely structured and therefore… Teljes cikk »

Professor Zoltán Kónya has received a high state award

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On the 20th of August, “ZOLTÁN KÓNYA, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Applied Chemistry and Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science and Informatics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was decorated with the Hungarian Order of Merit Officer’s Cross Civil Section. On behalf of the HSM we congratulate Zoltán Kónya on this great award … Teljes cikk »

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for Péter Horváth and his research team

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Péter Horváth, head of the Microscopic Imaging and Machine Learning Group at the Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, has had great successes individually and together with his team, too. Their most recent joint success is the large amount of research funding mentioned in the title, which can also be found on the website of the Hungarian… Teljes cikk »

Bolyai Day at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Tribute to Csaba Cserép and Andrea Lőrincz

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The most expected event of the Bolyai Day is the distribution of the Bolyai János Research Scholarships launched in 1996. These scholarships are awarded for one, two or (most typically) three years for the implementation of a given research project. In 2019, 151 young researchers got awarded for their applications and took part at the solemn festivity in the Banquet… Teljes cikk »

Scanning electron microscopy images at the Museum in Natural History

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On June 18, 2019 the membesr of the HSM were invited to the opening ceremony of the exhibition entitled “Journey to the Micro World” at the Hungarian Museum of Natural History . However, the magnificent, spectacular images produced by scanning electron microscopy – most of them received after-coloring at Eötvös Loránd University – are not only delightful but also teach… Teljes cikk »