Detailed Professional Background
Affiliations: Main: University Professor, Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest Technical University Part time: Research Professor and Head of Department, Structural Chemistry Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös University Degrees: M.Sc. 1965, Moscow University Dr.rer.nat. 1972, Eotvos University Dr.Sc. 1976, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Dr.h.c. 1992, Moscow University Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1987 Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1988 Member of Academia Europaea, 1994 D.Sc. honoris causa, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2000 Career summary: Research Scientist, Center for Studies on Chemical Structures, HAS, 1965-1973 Visiting Scientist, Chemistry Institute, University of Oslo, 1968, 1975, 1981 Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, 1969/1970 Research Scientist, 1973-1975, Senior Research Scientist, 1975-76, Central Research Institute of Chemistry, HAS Head of Department of Electron Diffraction & Quantum Chemistry, Central Research Institute of Chemistry, HAS, 1976-1979 Head of Department of Structural Studies, Research Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry, HAS, 1979-1986 Science Advisor (HAS), 1982-1993 Visiting Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1983/1984 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1984/1985 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, 1986/1987 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1988/89 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Summer 1989 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Fall 1989 Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Spring 1993 Head of Institute of Gen. and Analyt. Chem., Budapest Technical University, 1991-96 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 1996/97, Spring 1998, Spring 1999 Visiting Fellow, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, January-March, 2000. Visiting Scientist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, U.S.A., January-March, 2002 Editorial activities, Periodicals: Editor-in-Chief, Structural Chemistry (Plenum Press, New York) Editor-in-Chief, The Chemical Intelligencer (Springer, New York), 1995-2000 Co-Editor, Advances in Molecular Structure Research (JAI, Greenwich, CT) , 1995-2000 Advisory Board, Methods in Stereochemical Analysis (VCH, New York) Editorial Board, Speculations in Science and Technology (London) Editorial Board, Computers & Mathematics with Applications (Pergamon Press, Oxford) Editorial Advisor, Leonardo (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA) Editorial Board, A kémia újabb eredményei (HAS, Budapest) Editorial Board, Kémiai Közlemények (HAS, Budapest) Advisory Board, ACH - Models in Chemistry (HAS, Budapest) Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Systems (World Scientific, Singapore) Editorial Board, Fullerene Science and Technology (Dekker, New York) International Advisory Board, Russian Chemical Bulletin (Moscow/New York) Professional and association memberships: Member, Commission of Electron Diffraction, International Union of Crystallography, 1981-1990 Member, Hungarian National Committee of the International Union of Crystallography Member, Hungarian National Committee of CODATA, 1978-1985 Member, Advisory Board of the Austin Symposia on Molecular Structure, 1992- Member, UNESCO, Hungarian National Committee, 1992- Chairman, Task Group on Gas-Phase Structural Data, Hungarian National Committee of CODATA, 1981-1985 Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (USA), 1984 Chairman, Committee on Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, HAS, 1990-1996 Chairman, Michael Polanyi Prize Award Committee, HAS, 1992-1996 Member, Hungarian Chemical Society Member, Lorand Eötvös Physical Society Member, International Group for Correlation Analysis in Chemistry Member, American Association of University Professors, 1983-85, 1988-89 Member, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut, 1983/1985, 1988/89 Member, International Advisory Board, Earth Sustainability Foundation (Vancouver) Honorary Member, International Symmetry Society, 1992 Member, American Chemical Society, 1985 Foreign Member, Japan Institute of Hyperspace Science, 1992 Member, The New York Academy of Sciences, 1987 Awards, etc.: Academy prize for authors, Budapest, 1977 Academy prize for book critics, Budapest, 1979 O. Hassel Lectureship, University of Oslo, 1981 F. Torok Lectureship, University of Arkansas, 1986 Best Journal Issue Award by the Association of American Publishers, 1986 Joint Research Award of the Hungarian and Soviet Academies of Sciences, 1988 Dozor Visiting Professor, Israel, 1991 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Visiting Professor, 1992 Presentation and Introduction to the Academy of Sciences, Institut de France, Paris, 1993 Kaskan Lectureship, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1994 The Japan Academy, Visiting Professor, 1994 The Royal Society, Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, London, 1994 First George A. Olah Lectureship, USC, Los Angeles, 1996 Szechenyi State Prize of Hungary (shared w/M. Hargittai), 1996 Krengel Visiting Professorship, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1996 Keynote Speaker (w/M. Hargittai), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1996 Scheduled: Wenner-Gren Distinguished Lectureship, Stockhom, Sweden, October, 1996 Laboratory of Molecular Sciences Distinguished Lecturer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, May, 1999 Research Interest: Structural chemistry; sulfur and silicon stereochemistry; coordination compounds; metal halides; unstable species; high-temperature chemistry; gas-phase electron diffraction; combined use of experimental techniques and theoretical chemistry; gas/solid structure differences; intramolecular and intermolecular interactions; models of molecular geometry; history and culture of chemistry; general problems of symmetry, great scientific discoveries and scientists of the 20th century. |