text: Ferenc Szabadváry (1 September 1923 – 21 May 2006) was a Hungarian chemist and historian. From 1971 he was director at the Hungarian National Museum for Science and Technology.
  In 1960 he published a history of analytical chemistry in Hungarian. A translation was made by Gyula Svehla in 1966, first published with Pergamon Press and later Gordon and Breach.
  Szabadváry received the Dexter Award in 1970.