Ferenc Szabadváry (1 September 1923 – 21 May 2006) was a Hungarian

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and

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. From 1971 he was director at the

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. In 1960 he published a history of

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in Hungarian. A translation was made by Gyula Svehla in 1966, first published with

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and later Gordon and Breach. Szabadváry received the Dexter Award in 1970.

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1923 births 2006 deaths Hungarian chemists Historians of chemistry 20th-century Hungarian historians {{Hungary-scientist-stub