Background
Lengyel, István was born on July 12, 1931 in Kaposvar, Hungary. Son of István and Margit (Palásthy) Lengyel. came to the United States, 1958.
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István Lengyel
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Diploma in chemistry, Eotvos Lorand U., 1955; Doctor of Philosophy in Organic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964.
Career
Research chemist, G. Richter Pharmaceutical Works, Inc., Budapest, 1953-1955; chemist, State Geophysical Institute, Budapest, 1955-1956; research chemist, Biochemie GmbH, Kundl, Austria, 1957-1958; research assistant, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, 1958-1959; predoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1959-1963; postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1964; National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow, Technology U., Munich, 1964-1965; research associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1965-1967; professor of chemistry, St. John's U., Jamaica, New York, since 1967; department chairman chemistry, St. John's U., Jamaica, New York, 1985-1991. Visiting scholar United States National Academy Science and Hungarian Academy Sciences, 1973.
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Membership
Recipient award Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1973-1974.
