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L. LOUIS HEGEDUS
L. LOUIS HEGEDUS
Pages 160-165
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He graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the prestigious Budapest University of Technology and Economics, where he met his future wife, Eva Brehm, at a dance. Louis escaped from communist Hungary in 1965 to Germany, where he shoveled coal and took other odd jobs while learning German at an American military base.
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Louis received his PhD in chemical engineering in 1972. His timing and choice of field were fortuitous, as air pollution was becoming a national issue in the United States.
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In time, Louis was promoted to vice president in the Corporate Technology Group. The third major phase of Louis' professional career began in 1996 when he was recruited to head US chemical research for Elf Atochem, a unit of the largest French petroleum company, Elf-Aquitaine.
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Louis is survived by his daughters Caroline Hegedus Borncamp, an attorney with Link Law specializing in estate planning, and Monica Hegedus, MD, a pediatrician at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and a granddaughter.
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