József Pálinkás

József Pálinkás (born 18 September 1952) is a Hungarian atomic physicist and politician who served as Minister of Education between 2001 and 2002. He was President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2008 to 2014.

Education and career Pálinkás studied physics at the Attila József University in Szeged and graduated in 1977. In 1981, he received his PhD from Lajos Kossuth University of the Sciences in Debrecen.

He was the director of the ATOMKI from 1991 to 1996. In 1995, he became a full professor and head of the Department of Physics at the Lajos Kossuth University of Debrecen.

Memberships From 2008 to 2014, Pálinkás was President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the World Science Forum.

He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Publications Experimental Investigation of the Angular Distribution of Characteristic X-Radiation Following Electron Impact Ionisation (co-author, 1979) L3-Subshell Alignment in Gold Following Low-Velocity Proton and He+ Impact Ionisation (co-author, 1980) L3-Subshell Alignment of Gold by C+ and N+ Impact Ionisation (co-author, 1982) Alignment of He- and H-Like P-States of 48-MeV Foil-Excited Mg Ions (co-author, 1985) Observation of the Electron Capture into the Continuum States of Neutral Projectiles (co-author, 1989) Egzotikus elektronbefogási folyamatok (1996) Status of CMS and B-physics with CMS (co-author, 2000) The CMS Experiment at the CERN LHC (co-author, 2008)