Alex Szalay

1949 -

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country of citizenship: Hungary

educated at: University of Debrecen, Eötvös Loránd University

occupation: physicist, astronomer

award received: Sidney Fernbach Award, Széchenyi Prize

official website: idies.jhu.edu

Alex Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy and computer science at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering. Szalay is an international leader in astronomy, cosmology, the science of big data, and data‐intensive computing. In 2023, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Source: Wikipedia (en)