A Hungarian language version of the talk was broadcast by the BBC Hungarian World Service on 10th February 1974, eight days after Lakatos died on 2 February. www.lse.ac.uk/collections/lakatos/scienceAndPseudoscience...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Imre Lakatos. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Lakatos
Imre had spent the war years at the University of Debrecen and he graduated in 1944 with a degree in mathematics, physics and philosophy. To avoid the Nazi persecution of Jews he changed his name to Imre Molnár , and he survived while others of Jewish d www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Lakatos....
Imre Lakatos (1922-74) lectured at LSE from 1959 until his death in 1974. A Hungarian, he had been a research student of Hegelian-Marxist philosophy under Gyorgy Lukacs before leaving Hungary to study in Moscow in 1949. On his return to Hungary in 1950 www.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/lakatos.htm
This is a revision of the essay Proofs and Refutations that had appeared in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 1963-4. Lakatos was working on the long-planned book version at the time of his death. ... "Lakatos's contribution to the www.complete-review.com/reviews/lakatosi/pandr.htm
Imre Lakatos (1922-74) lectured at LSE from 1959 until his death in 1974. A Hungarian, he had been a research student of Hegelian-Marxist philosophy under Gyorgy Lukacs before leaving Hungary to study in Moscow in 1949. On his return to Hungary in 1950 www.lse.ac.uk/resources/LSEHistory/lakatos.htm
