Mária Wollemann

Mária Wollemann (6 July 1923 – 5 October 2019) was a Hungarian biochemist and neuroscientist who specialised in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology. A student of Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi at the University of Szeged, she worked at the from 1954 until 1970 and was director of the Biological Research Centre from 1978 until 1983. Biography Born in Budapest on 6 July 1923, Mária Wollemann studied medicine at the University of Szeged under Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi and at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, obtaining her Doctor of Medicine degree from the latter in 1947. After working at the Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1948–1949), Wollemann started working at the (OMIII) in 1954, remaining there until 1970.

After being inducted to the Hungarian Order of Merit with the Officer's Cross in 1994, Wollemann was promoted to Commander's Cross in 2003. In addition to a 2017 commemorative medal for services to the city's international relations, she was a 2019 honorary citizen of Szeged. Her funeral was subsequently held at the cemetery in , a neighbourhood in Szeged.