László Baksay

{{Short description|Hungarian physicist and academic (1945–2020)}}

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László András Baksay (22 July 1945 – 13 January 2020){{cite book|last1=Evans|first1=J. M.|title=Two Thousand Notable Americans|date=1989|publisher=American Biographical Institute|isbn=9780934544399|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8RvjNVeYasC&q=L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3+Baksay+1945|accessdate=20 August 2017|language=en|quote=Born July 22, 1945; Son of Dr. Laszlo Baksay (deceased) and Jolan Bethlen; Married Marika Gallo.}}{{cite web |last1=Raics |first1=Péter |title=Elhunyt Baksay László |url=https://mailman.kfki.hu/sympa/arc/fizinfo/2020-01/msg00038.html |website=Fizinfo archives |accessdate=23 January 2020}} was a Hungarian physicist and academic. He was a former professor and head of the Physics and Space Sciences at the Department of Physics and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology.

Baksay was born in Budapest in 1945, but his family moved to Germany in 1956, where he went to high school in Düsseldorf.{{cite web|title=CURRICULUM VITAE: Prof. Dr. László v. Baksay|url=http://baksay.beep.com/files/lb_cv_stony_brook.pdf|accessdate=20 August 2017}} He received his doctorate from RWTH Aachen University, in Aachen, West Germany, in 1978.{{cite journal|title=Az amerikai magyar iskolákról|url=http://www.fizikaiszemle.hu/old/archivum/fsz9605/baksay9605.html|accessdate=20 August 2017|journal=Fizikai Szemle|date=1996|language=hu}}

He was awarded the status of Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/|title=APS Fellowship|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}} in the American Physical Society,{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellow Archive|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}} after they were nominated by their Forum on International Physics in 2008,{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=2008&unit_id=&institution=|title=APS Fellows 2008|website=www.aps.org|language=en|access-date=2017-04-20}} for "his contributions to high energy physics, leadership of international collaborations especially in bringing the Hungarian physics community into the international enterprise, innovations and activities in science education and many efforts for the APS international program and the Forum on International Physics."