Szilveszter E. Vizi received the Count Lajos Batthyány Award
Szilveszter E. Vizi, two-time Széchenyi Prize-winning Hungarian physician, pharmacologist and former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, received this year’s Count Lajos Batthyány Prize. Teri Tordai, Kossuth and Jászai Mari Prize-winning actress, received the Count Antónia Zichy Prize at the Hungarian Batthyány Foundation’s event on Friday at the Fiumei út cemetery in Budapest.
The Hungarian Batthyány Foundation – named after Prime Minister Lajos Count Batthyány and his wife, Count Antonia Zichy – supports all outstanding and exemplary activities or heroic deeds, which responds to the social, economic and political challenges of our time in a pragmatic, pragmatic and in proportion to the opportunities and necessities. In this way, the Hungarian nation, Hungary’s success and international international recognition, the preservation and renewal of farming traditions, the the unity of small communities and families, the preservation of religious and universal values the promotion of science, culture, art and education and the development of art and culture. In doing so, they will also contribute to the betterment of the Hungarian nation, Hungary’s success and international recognition, he stressed.
This year, the Foundation also presented posthumous awards to Miklós Duray (1945-2022), a Hungarian politician and writer from Slovakia, and Csilla von Boeselager (1941-1994), a Hungarian-born chemist and marketing expert.
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