Endre Kőrös

Endre Kőrös (September 18, 1927 – February 18, 2002) was a Hungarian chemist mostly known in the field of nonlinear chemical dynamics for developing the FKN mechanism, a description of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction involving 11 reactions and 12 species (21 intermediate species and 18 elementary steps), in 1972 with his colleagues Richard J. Field and Richard M. Noyes.

Endre Kőrös is a Széchenyi Prize-winning chemist and was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a leading figure in 20th century chemistry. His main research focused on the field of analysis of complex chemicals and the reaction kinetics (studying the kinetics of chemical reactions). One of his most important contributions, together with his American colleagues Richard J. Field]] and Richard M. Noyes, is the development of the FKN mechanism which allows the modeling of the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction in 1972. From 1949 to his death in 2002, he was a professor at Eötvös Loránd University in the Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry Department. He was the chair of this department from 1984 to 1989. Provided by Wikipedia