The HUN-REN Rényi Institute hereby establishes the Fejes Tóth László Medal (Fejes Tóth László érem). This initiative is a tribute to the Institute's second director, who served in this role for 13 years from 1970 to 1983 and was a world-class geometer. The medal will be awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of geometry (interpreted in the broadest sense) on an international scale.
László Fejes Tóth was born in Szeged in 1915, graduated from Pázmány Péter University (now ELTE) in 1938 under the supervision of Lipót Fejér, and published his first paper in 1935 in the proceedings of the French Academy of Sciences on an analytic problem. He joined the faculty of the University of Kolozsvár in Transylvania, and returned to Budapest in 1944 to teach mathematics at the Árpád Gimnazium. From 1949 he became a professor at the University of Veszprém (now Pannon Egyetem) for 15 years, and joined the faculty of the Rényi Institute (then Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) afterwards. He was the director of the Institute for more than a decade in the 1970's. He became member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1962. Professor Fejes Tóth received numerous distinctions, among others the Kossuth Prize, the State Award and the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2002. He passed away shortly after his 90th birthday, in 2005. He left a profound mathematical legacy not only through his papers, results and theorems, but through a still blossoming mathematical school of discrete geometry at the HUN-REN Rényi Institute. The medal recognizes his contribution to the HUN-REN Rényi Institute and to Hungarian and international mathematics.
The regulations of the Fejes Tóth László medal can be found in this link.