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Cornelius Lanczos

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Hungarian mathematician and physicist (1893-1974)

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Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scientific luminaries who immigrated to the United States to escape national socialism.

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A commemorative plaque at the childhood home of Lanczos. The inscription reads: "Kornél Lánczos spent the years of his youth in this house from 1893 to 1911, an excellent practitioner of mathematics and physics, a world-renowned scientist of quantum mechanics and relativity."A commemorative plaque at the childhood home of Lanczos. The inscription reads: "Kornél Lánczos spent the years of his youth in this house from 1893 to 1911, an excellent practitioner of mathematics and physics, a world-renowned scientist of quantum mechanics and relativity."

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1960Chauvenet Prize

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Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scientific luminaries who immigrated to the United States to escape national socialism. He was remembered by his colleagues as an innovative scholar and an excellent educator.

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Lived 1893 to 1974 · aged 81
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