Laszlo Farkas

* Dunaszerdahely, 10 May 1904 – † Rome, 31 December 1948 / chemist, university professor. ; ; He obtained his doctorate in 1927 as a result of his studies at the Vienna and Berlin Technical Universities. From 1927 he was a colleague of Fritz Haber. After the Nazis came to power, he went to England, where he taught colloidics at the University of Cambridge. In 1936 he was invited to become a lecturer at the University of Tel Aviv, where he was a professor of physical chemistry until his death. His research field was photochemistry, the study of the equilibrium distribution of ortho- and parahydrogen molecules. He developed a new method for the production of heavy water. He studied the exchange reactions of heavy water and the catalytic activity of deuterium. He died in a plane crash. His younger brother, Béla Adalbert Farkas (1906–1995), was also a chemist, and they wrote several articles together. ; ; His main works: ; Orthohydrogen, parahydrogen and heavy hydrogen, 1935, ; Physical chemistry of the hydrocarbons, 1950.