Detailed Professional Background
Affiliation Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus (Active) Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Budapest Technical University Degrees Undergraduate studies 1959-1961, Eötvös University, Budapest Master's studies 1961-1965, Moscow State University M.Sc. 1992, Moscow State 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 Dr.h.c. Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004 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 Visiting Scientist, Matrix Biology Institute, Edgewater, NJ, Spring terms of 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Current editorial activities Editor-in-Chief (Founder), Structural Chemistry (Springer, New York), since 1989 Editorial Advisor, Leonardo (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA) International Advisory Board, Russian Chemical Bulletin (Moscow/New York) Vestnik MGU-Chemistry Journal Current professional and association memberships Consultant, Commission of Electron Diffraction, International Union of Crystallography Member, Hungarian Chemical Society Honorary Member, International Symmetry Society, 1992 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. |