Albert-László Barabási, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Albert-László Barabási

Hungarian-Romanian physicist

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1967

Place of Birth: Cârța, Romania

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Albert-László Barabási (born March 30, 1967) is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. He is the former Emil T.
Hofmann Professor at the University of Notre Dame and current Distinguished Professor and Director of Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) associate member of the Center of Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB) at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, and visiting professor at the Center for Network Science at Central European University. He introduced in 1999 the concept of scale-free networks and proposed the Barabási–Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the World Wide Web or online communities.
He is the Founding President of the Network Science Society, which grew out of and sponsors the flagship NetSci conference held yearly since 2006