Balázs László Győrffy

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Balázs László Győrffy was a Hungarian-American-British physicist. He was one of the pioneers of the application of the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Coherent Potential Approximation (KKR-CPA) for first-principle calculations of the electronic structure of alloys.

He was elected an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1995, Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 1998, was a co-recipient of the Gordon Bell Prize in 1998, and won the 2001 William Hume-Rothery award.

Győrffy received a B.S. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where he studied under Nobel prize winner Willis Lamb. Since 1970 he was associated with the University of Bristol, where he was a lecturer (1970–1980), reader (1980–1987) and professor (since 1987). He is now an Emeritus professor in Physics at that university.

Győrffy has held visiting positions at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Institut Laue-Langevin, the University of Toronto, and the Technical University of Vienna.