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Season’s Greetings
We wish all our colleagues, scientific and industrial partners a peaceful and blessed Christmas and a prosperous, happy New Year.
Announcements
Announcement of the 2025 Hevesy Medal Awardee
We are pleased to announce that, prof. Steven Biegalski has been selected to receive the 2025 Hevesy Medal (HMA-2025). Professor Steven Biegalski, working in the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA in recognition of Read more…
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Zsolt Kasztovszky has been awarded the highest scientific degree in Hungary, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Zsolt Kasztovszky, a colleague of BNC, successfully defended his treatise, titled “Application of prompt-gamma activation analysis to determine the provenance of silicate-based archaeological finds and their raw materials,” in December 2024. In recognition of his Read more…
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Recent articles from the Mössbauer-group of BNC
One of them is focusing on the examination of host rocks possible for HLW deposition in Hungary, while the other is highlighting measurements on calcium phosphate-based material used in the reductive adsorption of Cr(VI) to Read more…
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BNC celebrated the 10th anniversary of CERIC-ERIC with a series of successful presentations
The 10th anniversary of CERIC-ERIC was successfully celebrated with a series of lectures on Monday, 25 November 2024, from 09:00 to 13:00 CET in Budapest at BNC. After the official celebration of the 10th anniversary Read more…
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New Open Access Article from BNC’s Heritage Science Group in Applied Physics
The research group gave an overview of a long-lasting project on the Prompt Gamma Activation Analysis (PGAA)-based chemical investigations of archaeological polished stone tools from Hungary. Based on 20 years of PGAA measurements, a more Read more…
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Anatolian connections revealed by obsidian blade from Early Bronze Age grave in Hungary
Explore the details of this exciting discovery in our latest open access article, based on analytical results obtained by BNC’s instruments. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-024-08028-y The paper deals with provenance research of a unique long, transparent obsidian blade Read more…
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Celebrating 10th anniversary of CERIC at BNC
The Budapest Neutron Centre plays an active role in the development of the CERIC-ERIC consortium, contributing not only with its expertise in the measurement techniques offered, but also with the research topics it addresses. We Read more…
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New material science investigations of ancient pottery technology at the BNC
Archaeological artefacts are frequent visitors at the BNC, as we are involved in numerous international and Hungarian archaeology projects. However, to the archaeologist, it’s not only those that glitter that are precious! Pottery, as one Read more…