Attila Szabó

Attila Szabo is a biophysicist who is a Distinguished Investigator and Section Chief of the Theoretical Biophysical Chemistry Section in the Laboratory of Chemical Physics at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, part of the United States National Institutes of Health.

Early life and education Szabo was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1947. His family left Hungary in response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - he later recalled a dramatic escape over the border to Austria - and immigrated to Canada, settling in Montreal. Interested in chemistry since he was a child, Szabo studied the subject at McGill University as an undergraduate and received his bachelor's degree in 1968. While at Indiana Szabo also co-authored a textbook on quantum chemistry with fellow Karplus lab member Neil Ostlund.