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Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Bornemissza, Gyorgy Ferenc

Birth

11 February, 1924
Baja, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary

Death

10 April, 2014 (aged 90)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Hungarian

Passenger Ship

• Anna Salen (1951)

Occupation or Descriptor

• entomologist
• insect collector
• refugee
• zoologist

Awards

• Britannica Australia Award
• Rolex Award for Enterprise
• Medal of the Order of Australia
• Conservationist of the Year (Australian Geographic)

Legacies

• Hoploghonus bornemisszae (Bornemissza’s stag beetle)

Key Organisations

• Alexander von Humboldt Society

Workplaces

• University of Western Australia (zoology)
• CSIRO (entomology)