Dénes Berényi (26 December 1928 – June 27, 2012) 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 ...

, member of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

(MTA) and Head of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1976 to 1990. The 5694 Berényi is named after him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Berenyi, Denes 1928 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Hungarian physicists Hungarian nuclear physicists People from Debrecen