Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

Founded in 1635 by Cardinal Péter Pázmány in Nagyszombat (now Trnava in Slovakia), relocated to Buda in 1777 by Empress Maria Theresa, then to Pest in 1784, becoming the modern University of Budapest. Renamed in 1950 after Loránd Eötvös (1848-1919) — the great Hungarian physicist who taught here and whose pendulum measurements of gravitational acceleration were foundational to Einstein's verification of the equivalence principle in General Relativity. Approximately 28,000 students across eight faculties. Hungary's largest and flagship research university. **5 Nobel laureates** affiliated including George de Hevesy (Chemistry 1943, radioactive tracers), Eugene Wigner (Physics 1963 — also worked at ELTE before WW2 emigration), Dénes Gábor (Physics 1971, holography), John Polanyi (Chemistry 1986, briefly), George Olah (Chemistry 1994). Distinguished alumni across Hungarian intellectual life including the founders of the 'Martian' generation of Hungarian Jewish scientists who emigrated to the US in the 1930s-40s. ⚠️ NOTE: ELTE was MISSING from the AlmiStudy collector file — added as critical curator entry given its status as Hungary's flagship and oldest university.

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