The Széchenyi Prize (), named after

István Széchenyi Count István Széchenyi de Sárvár-Felsővidék (, ; archaically English: Stephen Széchenyi; 21 September 1791 – 8 April 1860) was a Hungarian politician, political theorist, and writer. Widely considered one of the greatest statesme ...

, is a prize given in

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, 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 and ...

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 - 1991 * Agnes Heller - 1995 * Cseh-Szombathy László, ifj. - 1994 * Eösze László - 2013 *

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 - 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 (; ; 26 July 1921, in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary – 20 July 2010, in Richmond, Virginia) was a Catholic philosopher, historian and political theorist. Life Molnar completed his undergraduate studi ...

- 2000 * Gyula O. H. Katona - 2005 * Katalin Keserü - 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 ...

- 2008 * András Jánossy - 2009 * Mária Augusztinovics – 2010 * András Sárközy - 2010 *

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi ( , , ; 29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of " flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He w ...

- 2011 * László Lénárd - 2011 * Lajos Pósa - 2011 * Gábor Stépán - 2011 * Endre Szemerédi (2012) * György Kéri - 2013 * Telegdy Gyula - 2014 * Mária Schmidt, Miklós Simonovits - * Péter Erdő, Miklós Maróth (2016) * Béla Bollobás (2017) *

Katalin Karikó Katalin "Kati" Karikó (, ; born 17 January 1955) is a Hungarian-American biochemist who specializes in ribonucleic acid (RNA)-mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-Transcription (biology), transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA) for protein repla ...

(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 biomolec ...

(2021) * György Bagdy (2022)

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