The Széchenyi Prize ( hu, Széchenyi-díj), named after

István Széchenyi Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék ( hu, sárvár-felsővidéki gróf Széchenyi István, ; archaically English: Stephen Széchenyi; 21 September 1791 – 8 April 1860) was a Hungarian politician, political theorist, and wri ...

, is a prize given in

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...

by the state, replacing the former State Prize in 1990 in recognition of those who have made an outstanding contribution to academic life in Hungary.

Recipients

Alex Szalay Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy and computer science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering.Brooks, Kell"Johns Hopkins names four new Bloomberg D ...

- 1991 * Agnes Heller - 1995 *

János Kornai János Kornai (21 January 1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states. He also covered macroeconomic aspects in countries undergoing pos ...

- 1994 *

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 h ...

- 1997 * György Enyedi - 1998 *

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 ...

- 1998 *

Thomas Molnar Thomas Steven Molnar (; hu, Molnár Tamás; 26 July 1921, in Budapest, Hungary – 20 July 2010, in Richmond, Virginia) was a Catholic philosopher, historian and political theorist. Life Molnar completed his undergraduate studies at the Univer ...

- 2000 *

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 ...

- 2005 *

Katalin Keserü Katalin Keserü (born 4 October 1946 in Pécs, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the n ...

- 2007Keserü Katalin, dr.
/ref> * Mihály Simai - 2007 * András Szőllősy - 2007 *

László Lovász László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He wa ...

- 2008 *

András Jánossy András () is a Hungarian masculine given name, the Hungarian form of ''Andrew''. Notable people with the name include: * András Ádám-Stolpa (born 1921), Hungarian tennis player * András Adorján (born 1950), Hungarian writer * András Ágosto ...

- 2009 *

Mária Augusztinovics Mária Augusztinovics (also Marija Augustinovič or Maria Augustinovics, 1930 – 21 November 2014) was a Hungarian Macroeconomics, macroeconomist known for her work in labour economics and on pension systems. Augusztinovics graduated from the C ...

– 2010 *

András Sárközy András Sárközy (born in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in analytic and combinatorial number theory, although his first works were in the fields of geometry and classical analysis. He has the largest number of papers co-auth ...

- 2010 *

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (, hu, Csíkszentmihályi Mihály Róbert, ; 29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental ...

- 2011 *

László Lénárd László Lénárd (born October 26, 1944) is a Hungarian neuroscientist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and professor. Biography Born in Pécs, in 1963 he started his studies at the University of Medicine in Pécs, where he rec ...

- 2011 * Lajos Pósa - 2011 * Gábor Stépán - 2011 *

Endre Szemerédi Endre Szemerédi (; born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science ...

(2012) *

György Kéri György Kéri (; January 11, 1950 – July 20, 2016) was a Hungarian biochemist, professor and Doctor of Biological Sciences (D.Sc.). His major field of research was signal transduction therapy and he participated in the development of novel dru ...

- 2013 *

Telegdy Gyula Telegdy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ádám Telegdy (born 1995), Hungarian swimmer * György Telegdy (born 1927), Hungarian basketball player * István Telegdy (1927–2013), Hungarian sailor and trainer *János Telegdy ...

- 2014 *

Mária Schmidt Mária Schmidt (born 10 October 1953) is a Hungarian historian and university lecturer. In 2016 she holds the office of the Government Commissioner of the Memorial Year of the 1956 Revolution, Director-General of the 20th Century Institute, the ...

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 ...

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Péter Erdő Péter Erdő ( hu, Erdő Péter, ; born 25 June 1952) is a Hungarian Cardinal of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, who has been the Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Primate of Hungary since 2003. He was president of the Council of t ...

, Miklós Maróth (2016) *

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 Pa ...

(2017) *

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 ...

(2021) *

András Perczel András Perczel (born May 10, 1959) is a Hungarian chemist, biochemist, university professor, an elected member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His major field of research is structural chemistry and biology including synthesis of biomolecu ...

(2021)

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