Departments of Physics

Head of the Department: Prof. Dr. Sándor SZATMÁRI, DSc.

Departments

Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Prof. Dr. Péter MARÓTI, DSc.

Department of Experimental Physics, Prof. Dr. Sándor SZATMÁRI, DSc.

Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Prof. Dr. Zsolt BOR, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Department of Theoretical Physics, Dr. habil. Iván GYÉMÁNT, CSs.

Associated Units

Research Group on Laser Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

Prof. Dr. Zsolt BOR, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Szeged Observatory, Dr. habil. Károly SZATMÁRY, CSc.

History

The University was relocated to Szeged from Kolozsvár in 1921. In the beginning, tuition of physics was provided by three institutes: the Institute of Natural Science; the Mathematical Seminar and the Institute of Practical Physics and Electrotechnics, whose responsibilities were later on taken over by the Institute of Experimental Physics. Parallel to the latter and partly out of the Mathematical Seminar emerged the Institute of Theoretical Physics.

Since then, these institutes have been headed by prominent professors, including Béla Pogány (he was the first head of the Institute of Experimental Physics, from 1921 to 1923), Zoltán Gyulai (head of the Institute of Experimental Physics from 1923 to 1924), Rudolf Ortvay (head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics from 1921 to 1928), Zoltán Bay (head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics from 1928 to 1936), Pál Fröhlich (head of the Institute of Experimental Physics from 1924 to his death in 1949), and Ágoston Budó (leading professor of the Institute of Experimental Physics from 1950 to his death in 1969). They established the school of physics in Szeged, traditions of which are living on in the work of the Departments of Physics these days.

Nowadays, the Departments of Physics include the four department, the Szeged Observatory and the research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Presently, there are about 50 teachers and researchers in these Departments, who have attained globally acknowledged results in numerous fields of physics.