József Pálinkás (born 18 September 1952) is a Hungarian atomic physicist and politician who served as

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between 2001 and 2002. He was President of the

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from 2008 to 2014.

Education and career

Pálinkás studied physics at the Attila József University in

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and graduated in 1977. In 1981, he received his PhD from Lajos Kossuth University of the Sciences in

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. He was the director of the

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from 1991 to 1996. In 1995, he became a full professor and head of the Department of Physics at the Lajos Kossuth University of Debrecen. In 2005, he became Director of the Physics Institute at the University of Debrecen. From 2007 to 2008, he was President of the Centre of Arts, Humanities and Sciences. He was a visiting scientist at the Manne Siegbahn Institute in

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, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cyclotron Institute in

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and a PhD student at the Institute for Nuclear Physics of the

. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Secretary of State of Education and from 2001 to 2002, he served as

. Thereafter Pálinkás served as Government Commissioner responsible for the creation of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) from 12 June to 31 December 2014. Following that he was President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office between 1 January 2015 and 30 June 2018.

Memberships

From 2008 to 2014, Pálinkás was President of the

and the

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. He is a member of the

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Publications

*''Experimental Investigation of the Angular Distribution of Characteristic X-Radiation Following Electron Impact Ionisation'' (co-author, 1979) *''L3-Subshell Alignment in Gold Following Low-Velocity Proton and He+ Impact Ionisation'' (co-author, 1980) *''L3-Subshell Alignment of Gold by C+ and N+ Impact Ionisation'' (co-author, 1982) *''Alignment of He- and H-Like P-States of 48-MeV Foil-Excited Mg Ions'' (co-author, 1985) *''Observation of the Electron Capture into the Continuum States of Neutral Projectiles'' (co-author, 1989) *''Egzotikus elektronbefogási folyamatok'' (1996) *''Status of CMS and B-physics with CMS'' (co-author, 2000) *''The CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC'' (co-author, 2008)

External links

Scientific publications of József Pálinkás
on

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References

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1952 births Living people Ministers of education of Hungary Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences People associated with CERN People from Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010) Members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts {{Hungary-politician-stub