HUN-REN Researchers Recognised at the 199th General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

At the Academy’s annual General Assemblies, the Academy Gold Medal is the highest honour among the awards traditionally presented. According to the official announcement, this lifetime achievement award recognises the laureate’s entire scientific career.

This year’s recipient is Jenő Sólyom, Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Research Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics at the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University.

He received the award in recognition of his internationally significant contributions to the theoretical study of low-dimensional and strongly correlated magnetic and electronic systems in solid-state physics, as well as for his outstanding role in laying the foundations and building up solid-state physics education in Hungary.

At the General Assembly, the Academy Awards were presented to researchers or research groups, in recognition of their outstanding research achievements and scholarly output—including publications and academic books—over the past few years.

Among this year’s recipients were several researchers from HUN-REN:

• Ákos Bartha, PhD, Research Fellow at the Institute of History, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities.
• Anna Dalos, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Advisor and Head of the Archives for 20th–21st Century Hungarian Music at the Institute for Musicology, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities.
• Péter Ódor, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research.

More information about Jenő Sólyom, recipient of the Academy Gold Medal, and his research career is available here. The full list of awardees and their research fields can be found here.

The newly elected members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences were formally introduced at the Academy’s 199th General Assembly. Full, corresponding, external and honorary members were elected on 7 May. The Academy currently has 294 full, 71 corresponding, 201 external and 191 honorary members.

Among those elected in 2025 were researchers from the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine (HUN-REN IEM), the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences (HUN-REN RCNS), the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities (HUN-REN RCH), and the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. The full list of new members is available here.

New corresponding members were also elected at the May General Assembly—their names can be found here.

Richard G. Pestell, a member of the HUN-REN Advisory Board, was elected as one of the new honorary members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.