Árpád Duka-Zólyomi (8 May 1941 – 26 July 2013) was a Hungarian

nuclear physicist Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...

, university teacher and politician from Slovakia. He was deputy of National Council from 1992 to 2004 and Member of the European Parliament with the Party of the Hungarian Coalition, part of the

European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian-democratic, conservative, and liberal-conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other political parties. Founded by primarily Ch ...

, from 2004 to 2009. Duka-Zólyomi was born in

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

. He studied gymnasium in

Galanta Galanta ( hu, Galánta, german: Gallandau) is a town (about 15,000 inhabitants) in the Trnava Region of Slovakia. It is situated 50 km due east of the Slovak capital Bratislava. Etymology The name is derived from a Slavic name ''Golęta'' ( ...

and then from 1958 to 1960 worked as laborer. From 1962 to 1968, he studied nuclear reactor physics at the

Czech Technical University in Prague Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU, cs, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, ČVUT) is one of the largest university, universities in the Czech Republic with 8 faculties, and is one of the oldest institutes of technology in Centra ...

,Árpád Duka-Zólyomi: Životopis
then worked as researcher and teacher at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Comenius University in Bratislava. From 1976 to 1989 he was researcher at Laboratory of Neutron Physics of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( Dubna, Russia), after he returned to Comenius University in Bratislava, where he worked until 2008. From 1968 to 1970, he was chairman of Association of Hungarian Youth in Slovakia. He was a member of the political party Coexistence (1991-1998 vicechairman), then in 1998, the party merged into Party of the Hungarian Coalition, when he was from 1998 to 2005 vicechairman. In 1992 elections he was elected as member of National Council and reelected again in

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

and

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

. In

2004 elections 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest c ...

he was elected as member of European Parliament for Slovakia. In EP he was substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Belarus. He was also chairman of the Slovak-Hungarian group of the

Inter-Parliamentary Union The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; french: Union Interparlementaire, UIP) is an inter-parliamentary institution, international organization of national parliaments. Its primary purpose is to promote democratic governance, accountability, and coop ...

(1998-2004), member of the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1995-2002), member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (2002-2004) and member of the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ...

Parliamentary Assembly (1999-2004). He died on 26 July 2013.http://www.eppgroup.eu/press-release/Slovakia%3A-condolences-for-Árpád-Duka-Zólyomi Slovakia condolences for Árpád Duka Zólyomi
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duka-Zolyomi, Arpad 1941 births 2013 deaths Scientists from Bratislava Hungarians in Slovakia Slovak nuclear physicists Academic staff of Comenius University Czech Technical University in Prague alumni Party of the Hungarian Community politicians Party of the Hungarian Community MEPs MEPs for Slovakia 2004–2009 Politicians from Bratislava Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 1992–1994 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 1994-1998 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 1998–2002 Members of the National Council (Slovakia) 2002-2006