Michael Moravcsik made important contributions to the practice and study of science policy in developing nations, scientific methodology, and scientometrics, especially the study of citation and citation indices.
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Michael Moravcsik's father, Gyula Moravcsik, was a professor of Greek philology and Byzantine history.
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Michael Moravcsik's mother, Edit Moravcsik, assisted her husband and taught language in Budapest.
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Michael Moravcsik's grandfather, Fleissig Sandor, was a prominent Hungarian banker and politician.
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Michael Moravcsik's brother was Julius Moravcsik, an academic philosopher who taught at Stanford University.
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Michael Moravcsik was married to Francesca Moravcsik and had two children, Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
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Michael Moravcsik's daughter Julia is a cognitive psychologist residing in Boulder, Colorado.
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Michael Moravcsik completed his BS in physics at Harvard University in 1951 and received his PhD from Cornell University in 1956.
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Michael Moravcsik was a research associate at the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1956 to 1958.
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Michael Moravcsik was head of the elementary particle and nuclear theory group, theoretical division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1958 to 1967.
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Michael Moravcsik worked on the nucleon-nucleon interaction in scattering experiments, and the pion-nucleon coupling constant.
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Michael Moravcsik focused on science policy and its effects in developing countries.
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Michael Moravcsik was a science policy advisor to the Ford Foundation, UNESCO, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Science Foundation.
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Michael Moravcsik died of an embolism on April 25,1989, in Turin, Italy, where he was collaborating with a colleague.
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Michael Moravcsik has three grandchildren: Michael Edward Hoke Moravcsik, Alexander deGogorza Moravcsik, and Sean Timothy Bowling.