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Professor Csaba Horváth
The American Chemical Society lists Prof. Csaba Horváth among greats like Crick and Watson, Linus Pauling, Pierre and Marie Curie, and Ernest Rutherford, individuals who have contributed most to the development of chemistry in the 20th century. Csaba Horváth, along with J. Calvin Giddings and J.F.K. Huber, had come up with the concept of the first HPLC instruments.
Prof. Csaba Horváth was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "For pioneering the concept and the reduction to practice of high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) and for leadership in the development of bioanalytical techniques."
Csaba Horváth, was born in Hungary and graduated in chemical engineering from the Budapest Institute of Technology. In 1956 he joined Hoechst in Frankfurt, Germany. After receiving his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at J. W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, he immigrated in 1963 to the USA and became a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the following year, he moved to Yale and served in the School of Medicine and subsequently in the Department of Engineering and Applied Science. In S. R. Lipsky's laboratory at Yale, Csaba Horváth built the first HPLC unit to demonstrate the feasibility and potential of HPLC for the separation of biological substances. He pioneered biochemical engineering in the fields of enzyme engineering and biochemical separation and has authored nearly 300 scientific papers. Csaba Horváth is a member of various scientific societies and a recipient of numerous awards. He is a frequent speaker at international scientific gatherings and consultant to the biotechnology industry. His present teaching responsibilities include Biomedical Engineering I (ChE 351a/BME 351a), Separation Processes (ChE 411a), and Biotechnology (ChE 354b/BME 354b).
A Celebration of the Life of Csaba Horváth
News Article
We mourn the passing of Professor Csaba Horváth April 13, 2004
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