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Pál Gadó (1933–2016) attended the famous Lutheran High School in Budapest where luminaries of science had studied, such as Eugene P. Wigner (see a separate chapter) and John von Neumann. Then, Gadó studied physics at Eötvös University. His research was in materials science and technology and his particular interest was bauxite, the raw material for aluminum. He had a severe physical disability, but it did not slow him down. When he was in his fifties, at the top of his career in science, he changed course, and took up an active function in the organization of people with disabilities.
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I. Hargittai, “Koji Nakanishi ,” Chemical Heritage 2003, 21(3), 6–9. I thank Ashley Augustyniak of the Science History Institute, Philadelphia, for a copy of the publication. Chemical Heritage used to be the magazine of the Chemical Heritage Foundation—now the Science History Institute.
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Hargittai, I. (2020). Pál Gadó. In: Mosaic of a Scientific Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34766-6_10
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