(1930 – 2004)

Chemical engineer.

The American Chemical Society lists Prof. Csaba Horváth among greats like Watson and Crick, Linus Pauling, Pierre and Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford. Along with J. Calvin Giddings and J.F.K. Huber, he came up with the concept of the first HPLC (high-pressure liquid chromatography) instruments. His technique made possible quantitative analysis of complex biological mixtures.

Invented: molecular separations using HPLC (mid-1960s).

Credited with: HPLC, advances in other some areas (biomedicine, pharmacology, biotechnology).