The Faculty of Science of

Eötvös Loránd University Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...

was founded in 1949 and it is located in Lágymányos Campus, Újbuda,

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History

The Faculty of Science was established on 16 May 1949. In order to develop and improve the teaching of natural sciences, a separate faculty, the Faculty of Science was created from 22 departments and one institute. Before 1949, the

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, Sciences, Law and Political Science and Medicine constituted one big faculty. The new faculty consisted of 5 institutes: the Institute of Biology, the Institute of Physics, the Institute of Geography, the Institute of Chemistry, and the Institute of Mathematics. In 2005, József Gál along with Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow of the Jacobs University Bremen was awarded with the ig Nobel Prize. In 2010, our former student, Judit Nagy, died in a traffic accident at the age of 47. Nagy became a leading scientist in biochemistry at

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. In 2021, László Lovász, along with Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study in

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, was awarded with an

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. During the

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, the dean, Imre Kacskovics, was often interviewed and worked as a consultant for the Hungarian prime minister,

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. On 31 2021, the Faculty's former student,

Árpád Pusztai Árpád János Pusztai (8 September 1930 – 17 December 2021) was a Hungarian-born British biochemist and nutritionist who spent 36 years at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was a world expert on plant lectins, authoring ...

, died. He made a career at

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. He was known for his research in biochemsitry and the

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. The

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appointed three new members to the governing body of the leading European scientific organisation, including László Lovász, professor of mathematics at Faculty and former President of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

on 1 March 2022. During the

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, free courses were offered for

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students. In April 2022, new quantum processors were purchases by Eötvös Loránd University. According to the AD scientific index, among the top 10 most influential scientist at the Eötvös Loránd University are from the Faculty of Science. On 1 July 2022,

Katalin Karikó Katalin Karikó ( hu, Karikó Katalin, ; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms. Her research has been the development of in vitro- transcribed mRNA for protein therapies. She co-fo ...

, Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in RNA-mediated mechanisms, was awarded with an honorary doctorate.

Institutes

Deans

Aladár Buzágh Aladár or Aladar is a masculine given name. It may refer to: People * Aladár Andrássy (1827–1903), Hungarian soldier and politician * Aladár Árkay (1868–1932), Hungarian architect, craftsman and painter * Aladár Aujeszky (1869–1933), ...

: 1949–1950 * György Hajós: 1950–1951 * Tibor Erdey-Grúz: 1950–1951 * Ferenc Kárteszi: 1951–1954 *

László Fuchs László Fuchs (born June 24, 1924) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician, the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at Tulane University.

: 1954–1956 * Gusztáv Mödlinger: 1953–1958 * Sándor Lengyel: 1958–1961 *

Károly Nagy Károly Nagy (6 December 1797 – 2 March 1868) was an astronomer, mathematician, chemist and politician from the Austrian Empire. His observatory in Bicske was one of the most well-equipped observatories of Europe in the 19th century. It was des ...

: 1961–1966 * Kálmán Sztrókay: 1967–1968 * László Egyed: 1966–1967 and 1968–1970 * Imre Kátai: 1970–1977 * Imre Kubovics: 1977–1983 * Kálmán Medzihradszky: 1983–1989 * István Klinghammer: 1989–1990 * Ádám Kiss: 1990–1997 * András Benczúr: 1997–2001 * Ferenc Láng: 2001–2005 * György Michaletzky: 2005–2012 * Péter Surján: 2012–2018 * Péter Sziklai: 2018–2019 *

Imre Kacskovics Imre Kacskovics (23 September 1961, Budapest) is a Hungarian immunologist and the current dean of the Faculty of Science of the Eötvös Loránd University. Life He was born in 1961 in Budapest and he has been married with 3 children. Teac ...

: 2019–present

Research

In 2015, András Kovács, researcher at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, was interviewed by the Guardian on his group's discovery. His research team found a supervoid. In other words, the largest structure was discovered in the universe. A research group's, led by Attila Andics, study was featured in Forbes. The title of the article was "Science Reveals How Your Pet Really Feels About Your Affection". In 2018, a research group, led by Gábor Horváth, successfully modelled the

Kordylewski cloud Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that exist at the and Lagrangian points of the Earth–Moon system. They were first reported by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in the 1960s, and confirmed to exist in October 2018. D ...

s. Zsolt Demetrovics's study was featured on the Guardian entitled Cyberchondria and cyberhoarding: is internet fuelling new conditions? A study conducted by a research group of the Faculty of Science was featured in the

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, entitled Separation from your phone 'makes you stressed within minutes. In an article entitled Cows Can Be Toilet Trained, A New Study Suggests. This Has Implications For The Environment And Animal Welfare, published on

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, Paula Perez Fraga was interviewed on dog and pig behaviour. In 2020, Gergely Balázs's study on salamanders was featured in USA Today. He found that a rare olm salamander didn't move for more than seven years. The results of his study was published in the

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in 2020. A study, led by Ádám Miklósi, was featured on USAToday.com, entitled "Why is your dog tilting its head? New study dives into the adorable habit". The findings of their study was published in Animal Cognition, entitled 'An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs'. In 2022, a study conducted by Laura Cuaya, from the Department of Ethology of the Institute of Biology, was featured in the BBC. Another study, led by Attila Andics, was also featured in the BBC entitled 'Dogs can recognise their owners by their voice alone'.

Notable researchers

Notable alumni

The following is a list of scientists who achieved success worldwide: * János Aczél, mathematician * Miklós Ajtai, computer scientist * Béla Andrásfai, mathematician *

Hajnal Andréka Hajnal Ilona Andréka (also known as Hajnalka Andréka, born November 17, 1947) is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in algebraic logic. She is a research professor emeritus at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Aca ...

, mathematician *

Gergely Arató Gergely László Arató (born in Budapest, Hungary on 23 November 1968) is a Hungarian politician. He is a member of National Assembly of Hungary (''Országgyűlés)''. Early life and career He graduated from the Eötvös József High School ...

, politician and Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2018–2022) * László Babai, mathematician and computer scientist *

Zsolt Baranyai Zsolt Baranyai (June 23, 1948 in Budapest – April 6, 1978) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorics. He graduated from Fazekas High School where he was a classmate of László Lovász, Miklós Laczkovich, and La ...

, mathematician * Emanuel Beke, mathematician * Gyula Bereznai, mathematician *

Károly Bezdek Károly Bezdek (born May 28, 1955 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician. He is a professor as well as a Canada Research Chair of mathematics and the director of the Centre for Computational and Discrete Geometry at the Univ ...

, mathematician *

Béla Bollobás Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul E ...

, mathematician *

Miklós Bóna Miklós Bóna (born October 6, 1967, in Székesfehérvár) is an American mathematician of Hungarian origin. Bóna completed his undergraduate studies in Budapest and Paris, then obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1997 as a student of Richard P. Sta ...

, mathematician *

Ákos Császár Ákos Császár ( hu, Császár Ákos, ) (26 February 1924, Budapest – 14 December 2017, Budapest) was a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in general topology and real analysis. He discovered the Császár polyhedron, a nonconvex polyhedro ...

, mathematician *

Imre Csiszár Imre Csiszár () is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory and probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annual award given in the field of information theory. He was born on Februa ...

, mathematician *

Marianna Csörnyei Marianna Csörnyei (born October 8, 1975 in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Chicago. She does research in real analysis, geometric measure theory, and geometric nonlinear functional anal ...

, mathematician *

György Elekes György Elekes (19 May 1949 – 29 September 2008) was a Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be ...

, mathematician * Loránd Eötvös, physicist *

Pál Erdős Pál is a Hungarian masculine given name, the Hungarian version of Paul. It may refer to: * Pál Almásy (1818-1882), Hungarian lawyer and politician * Pál Bedák (born 1985), Hungarian boxer * Pál Benkő (1928–2019), Hungarian-American che ...

, mathematician *

László Fejes Tóth László Fejes Tóth ( hu, Fejes Tóth László, 12 March 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry. He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on th ...

, mathematician * Gyula Farkas, mathematician *

István Fáry István Fáry (30 June 1922 – 2 November 1984) was a Hungarian-born mathematician known for his work in geometry and algebraic topology.. He proved Fáry's theorem that every planar graph has a straight-line embedding in 1948, and the Fáry� ...

, mathematician *

Lipót Fejér Lipót Fejér (or Leopold Fejér, ; 9 February 1880 – 15 October 1959) was a Hungarian mathematician of Jewish heritage. Fejér was born Leopold Weisz, and changed to the Hungarian name Fejér around 1900. Biography Fejér studied mathematic ...

, mathematician * István Fenyő, mathematician *

Péter Frankl Péter Frankl (born 26 March 1953 in Kaposvár, Somogy County, Hungary) is a mathematician, busking, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan. Frankl studied Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and submitted ...

, mathematician *

László Fuchs László Fuchs (born June 24, 1924) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician, the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at Tulane University.

, mathematician *

Zoltán Füredi Zoltán Füredi (Budapest, Hungary, 21 May 1954) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, mainly in discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics. He was a student of Gyula O. H. Katona. He is a corresponding member ...

, mathematician * Peter Gacs, mathematician *

Janos Galambos Janos Galambos (''Galambos János'' in Hungarian, 1 September 1940 – 19 December 2019) was a Hungarian mathematician affiliated with Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Education and career Galambos earned his Ph.D. in 19 ...

, mathematician *

Tibor Gallai Tibor Gallai (born Tibor Grünwald, 15 July 1912 – 2 January 1992) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory, and was a lifelong friend and collaborator of Paul Erdős. He was a student of Dénes K� ...

, mathematician * Zoárd Geőcze, mathematician * George Grätzer, mathematician *

András Gyárfás András Gyárfás (born 1945) is a Hungarian mathematician who specializes in the study of graph theory. He is famous for two conjectures: * Together with Paul Erdős he conjectured what is now called the Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture which sta ...

, mathematician *

András Hajnal András Hajnal (May 13, 1931 – July 30, 2016) was a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences known for his work in set theory and combinatorics. Biography Hajnal was born on 13 May 1931,

, mathematician * György Hevessy, chemist * John Horvath, mathematician *

Imre Izsák Imre Gyula Izsák (Zalaegerszeg, Hungary, February 21, 1929 – Paris, France, April 21, 1965) was a Hungarian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and celestial mechanician. His father, Gyula Izsák, taught geography and biology in Zalaegerszeg ...

, mathematician * Benedek Jávor, politician *

Ányos Jedlik Ányos István Jedlik ( hu, Jedlik Ányos István; sk, Štefan Anián Jedlík; in older texts and publications: la, Stephanus Anianus Jedlik; 11 January 1800 – 13 December 1895) was a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Bened ...

, physicist * István Juhász, mathematician *

László Kalmár László Kalmár (27 March 1905, Edde – 2 August 1976, Mátraháza) was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary. ...

, mathematician *

Frigyes Károlyházy Frigyes Károlyházy (Hungarian: Károlyházy Frigyes) (Budapest, 28 December 1929 - Budapest, 2 July 2012) was a Hungarian theoretical physicist, textbook writer and university professor. He was an extremely talented teacher, trying to make comp ...

, mathematician *

Gyula O. H. Katona Gyula O. H. Katona (born 16 March 1941 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal–Katona theorem In algebraic combinatorics, the Kruskal–Katona theorem gives a co ...

, mathematician *

Béla Kerékjártó Béla Kerékjártó (1 October 1898, in Budapest – 26 June 1946, in Gyöngyös) was a Hungarian mathematician who wrote numerous articles on topology. Kerékjártó earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Budapest in 1920. He taught at ...

, mathematician *

Péter Kiss Péter Kiss (11 June 1959 – 29 July 2014) was a Hungarian Socialist politician. In Bajnai's government, he was a minister without portfolio. He was one of the candidates to succeed Péter Medgyessy as prime minister in 2004 but lost to Fer ...

, mathematician *

Lipót Klug Lipót, or Leopold (in German), Klug (23 January 1854 – 24 March 1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian mathematician, professor in the Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár. Life and work Klug attended the ''gymnasium'' of his hometown and entered ...

, mathematician * János Kollár, mathematician * János Komlós, mathematician * Gábor Korchmáros, mathematician * András Kornai, mathematician *

Lajos Kossuth Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (, hu, udvardi és kossuthfalvi Kossuth Lajos, sk, Ľudovít Košút, anglicised as Louis Kossuth; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian nobleman, lawyer, journalist, poli ...

, politician *

János Körner János Körner is a Hungarian mathematician who works on information theory and combinatorics. Körner studied Mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest with a degree in 1970 and was then at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathem ...

, mathematician *

József Kürschák József Kürschák (14 March 1864 – 26 March 1933) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of Valuation (algebra), valuations. He proved that every valued field can be ...

, mathematician *

Miklós Laczkovich Miklós Laczkovich (born 21 February 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician mainly noted for his work on real analysis and geometric measure theory. His most famous result is the solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem in 1989.Ruthen, R. (1989) ...

, mathematician *

Cornelius Lanczos __NOTOC__ Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos ( hu, Lánczos Kornél, ; born as Kornél Lőwy, until 1906: ''Löwy (Lőwy) Kornél''; February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian-American and later Hungarian-Irish mathematician and physicist. Accor ...

, mathematician * László Lempert, mathematician * László Lovász, mathematician *

Elod Macskasy Elod Macskasy ( hu, Macskásy Előd) (7 April 1919 – 21 January 1990) was a Hungarian-Canadian chess master. He was a mathematics professor, and also competed in swimming for Hungary at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Early life and education Elod Mac ...

, mathematician *

Michael Makkai Michael Makkai ( hu, Makkai Mihály; 24 June 1939 in Budapest, Hungary) is Canadian mathematician of Hungarian origin, specializing in mathematical logic. He works in model theory, category theory, algebraic logic, type theory and the theory of ...

, mathematician *

Katalin Marton Katalin Marton (9 December 1941 – 13 December 2019) was a Hungarian mathematician, born in Budapest. Education and career Marton obtained her PhD from Eötvös Loránd University in 1965 and worked at the Department of Numerical Mathemat ...

, mathematician *

Pál Medgyessy Pál Medgyessy (October 19, 1919, in Egercsehi – October 8, 1977, in Budapest) was a mathematician, Doctor of Mathematical Sciences (1973). Biography He graduated at the University of Budapest as a student of Eötvös József Collegium. He star ...

, mathematician * Paul G. Mezey, chemist *

János Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cover ...

, physicist * Gyula J. Obádovics, mathematician *

Géza Ottlik Géza Ottlik (9 May 1912 – 9 October 1990) was a Hungarian writer, translator, mathematician, and bridge theorist. According to an American obituary bridge column, he was known in Hungary as "the ultimate authority on Hungarian prose". Bi ...

, writer, translator, mathematician *

János Pach János Pach (born May 3, 1954) is a mathematician and computer scientist working in the fields of combinatorics and discrete and computational geometry. Biography Pach was born and grew up in Hungary. He comes from a noted academic family: his ...

, mathematician *

Péter Pál Pálfy Péter Pál Pálfy (Debrecen, 23 August 1955) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in algebra, more precisely in group theory and universal algebra. Between 2006 and 2018 he served as the director of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. ...

, mathematician *

János Pintz János Pintz (born 20 December 1950 in Budapest) is a Hungary, Hungarian mathematician working in analytic number theory. He is a fellow of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Rényi Mathematical Institute and is also a member of the Hun ...

, mathematician * Michael Polanyi, polymath * George Pólya, mathematician * Lajos Pósa, mathematician *

András Prékopa András Prékopa (September 11, 1929 – September 18, 2016) was a Hungarian mathematician, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the pioneers of stochastic programming and has been a major contributor to its literature. H ...

, mathematician *

László Rátz László Rátz (9 April 1863 in Sopron – 30 September 1930 in Budapest) was a Hungarian mathematics high school teacher best known for educating such people as John von Neumann and Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner. He was a legendary teac ...

, mathematician *

László Rédei László Rédei (15 November 1900 – 21 November 1980) was a Hungarian mathematician. Rédei graduated from the University of Budapest and initially worked as a schoolteacher. In 1940 he was appointed professor in the University of Szeged and i ...

, mathematician *

Marcel Riesz Marcel Riesz ( hu, Riesz Marcell ; 16 November 1886 – 4 September 1969) was a Hungarian mathematician, known for work on summation methods, potential theory, and other parts of analysis, as well as number theory, partial differential equations, ...

, mathematician *

Alfréd Rényi Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921 – 1 February 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. Life Rényi was born in Budapest to ...

, mathematician * Gedeon Richter, pharmacist * Imre Ritter, mathematician *

Elizabeth Rona Elizabeth Rona (20 March 1890 – 27 July 1981) was a Hungarian nuclear chemist, known for her work with radioactive isotopes. After developing an enhanced method of preparing polonium samples, she was recognized internationally as the leading ...

, chemist *

Imre Z. Ruzsa Imre Z. Ruzsa (born 23 July 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in number theory. Life Ruzsa participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad for Hungary, winning a silver medal in 1969, and two consecutive gold medals with pe ...

, mathematician * Rózsa Péter, mathematician *

Gábor N. Sárközy Gábor N. Sárközy, also known as Gabor Sarkozy, is a Hungarian-American mathematician, the son of noted mathematician András Sárközy. He is currently on faculty of the Computer Science Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, Unite ...

, mathematician * András Sebő, mathematician *

Ignác Semmelweis Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (; hu, Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp ; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Described as the "saviour of mothers", he discovered that t ...

, *

Simon Sidon Simon Sidon or Simon Szidon (1892 in Versec, Kingdom of Hungary – 27 April 1941, Budapest, Hungary) was a reclusive Hungarian mathematician who worked on trigonometric series and orthogonal systems and who introduced Sidon sequences and Sidon s ...

, mathematician *

Miklós Simonovits Miklós Simonovits (4 September 1943 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician who currently works at the Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest and is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is on the advisory board of the journ ...

, mathematician * József Solymosi, mathematician *

Rebeka Szabó Rebeka Katalin Szabó (born November 20, 1977) is a Hungarian biologist, ecologist and politician, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Politics Can Be Different (LMP) National List between 2010 and 2014. Education She earned a degree in biol ...

, politician * Zoltán Szabó, mathematician * Ottó Szász, mathematician *

Mario Szegedy Mario Szegedy (born October 23, 1960) is a Hungarian-American computer scientist, professor of computer science at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1989 from the University of Chicago. He held a Lady Davis Fellows ...

, mathematician * Albert Szent-Györgyi, biochemist *

Éva Tardos Éva Tardos (born 1 October 1957) is a Hungarian mathematician and the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Tardos's research interest is algorithms. Her work focuses on the design and analysis of efficient ...

, mathematician * Károly Than, chemist *

Van H. Vu Van H. Vu ( vi, Vũ Hà Văn) is a Vietnamese mathematician, Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.CV

, mathematician *

Vera T. Sós Vera T. Sós (born September 11, 1930) is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in number theory and combinatorics. She was a student and close collaborator of both Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. She also collaborated frequently with her husb ...

, mathematician

Library

The Library of the Faculty of Science is located on the Lágymányos Campus in Pázmány Péter sétány. The library has five collections: # Biological collection # Geographical and earth sciences collection # Physics collection # Chemistry collection # Mathematical collection

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