Second favorite Hungarian, from Venkatesh Medabalimi
György Buzsáki is my second favorite Hungarian [after Paul Erdős]. Brain Prize winner, he is from a later cohort. One of the few neuroscientists with a good theory for the Brain, a field that was ~mostly into measuring neural responses in parts of the brain to external stimuli and then telling a story around it. A great talk by him for the interested:
Ways to think about the brain: Emergence of cognition from action | ISTA Lecture with Gyorgy Buzsaki