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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.
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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 his significant contributions to nuclear analytical chemistry by developing comprehensive methods for analyzing radioxenon signatures 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 scholarly contributions, he was awarded the highest scientific degree in Hungary, the Doctor of the 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 Cr(III) for water remediation. Boda Claystone is considered to be a perspective host rock for 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 of CERIC in Brussels on 21 November 2024, each of the member countries has organised 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 than 700 itemed database was subjected to statistical analyses. Szilágyi, V., Kasztovszky, Z., Kereskényi, E. 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 that was found together with other objects in a grave at Csongrád (SE Hungary) dated 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 invite you to a workshop presenting research and innovation in the fields of materials science, 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 of the most abundant forms of human material culture, plays a significant role in archaeological Read more…
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Publication News in 2024 from BNC
We are proud to present the Open Access publication of our recent PhD graduate, which provides insight into the types and structure of iron(III)-citrate complexes, with a particular focus on their biological significance and applications. Maria Gracheva, Zoltán Klencsár, Zoltán Homonnay, Ádám Solti, László Péter, Libor Machala, Petr Novak, Krisztina Read more…