Biographie d'Istvan Hargittai
Istvan Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Research Professor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös University. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and member of the Academia Europaea. He has honorary doctorates from Moscow University and the University of North Carolina. He has lectured in some 30 countries and taught as a visiting professor at several universities in the USA. He has published extensively on structural chemistry and on symmetry-related topics. His books include Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists and Candid Science II: Conversations with Famous Biomedical Scientists. In December 2001, Professor Hargittai was invited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm to deliver a lecture on the subject of this book.