Physicist and professor, founder of the Hungarian Theoretical School of Physics. Academician.

He was born at Temesvár (Timisoara). He attends his studies at the theoretical school in his native town, where he is taught by remarkable teachers. Then he continues his studies at the University in Budapest, where he focuses on the study of Mathematics and Physics. He learns the experimental Physics from Eötvös Loránd, whom he considers his master, and admits that he is the teacher who had taught him the way to approach science in a very serious manner. He also learns Mathematics from outstanding teachers, from the great masters of the Hungarian Maths school. He is not so lucky with the experimental Physics. He is an Eötvös student.

He is firstly a teacher at a high-school in the country-side then, between 1919 and 1945, he teaches at the „Kölcsey Ferenc” School in Budapest. Here he is the colleague of the well-known Hungarian writers such as Babits Mihály és Kuntz Aladár. Besides his teaching activity at the high-school, in his spare time, he tries to recover that knowledge which he had not obtained at the University lectures of theoretical Physics. He gets in touch with the Maxwell theory regarding the electromagnetic surface thus he gets new perspectives related to the creative scientific way of thinking. The teacher keeps training himself and he is very successful in the further applications of the Maxwell equations; this is also the way he clarifies the famous Kirchhoff’s theory which focuses on the curves of light. His activity is also a surprise to those Physicians, who were famous for the theoretical connections they had discovered, and that was the reason they were awarded with Nobel prizes too; however there were several details they could not share the same opinion for years. For instance, such a topic was related to the analysis of the electromagnetic surface formed by the charge and particles in the insulating materials. Given his results within the frames of this domain, Novobátzky contributes to the development of the quantum mechanics.

After 1945, Novobátzky becomes the manager of the Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Science in Budapest, he works here until the end of his life, till 1967. He contributes to the development of the general theory of Physics, he is one of the initiators of the way modern Physics should be taught at upper levels, a professor and school founder. He is also famous for having organised the contemporary well-known teaching methodology of the theoretical Physics. He initiates and promotes his best disciples and, together with these, he founds a group of specialists, who are both teachers and researchers. He founds a school of Theoretical Physics. He is the member of the „Eötvös Loránd” Physics Association (ELFT) and, as he had been an outstanding researcher in the field, the Association appoints him as its President of Honour. In 1947 he collaborates with the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA), then he becomes its permanent member in 1949. Between 1949 and 1958 he is a management board member of the MTA, and between 1958 and 1967 its vice-president.

His activity can be resumed as follows: his main interest is developed in the theory of relativity and electromagnetic surface. His analysis is extended to the theory concerning the affinity surface and the non-Euclidean projective geometry; subsequently, he processes such a geometrical theory, which makes the comprehension of the electromagnetic geometry possible, due to the introduction of the non-linear vector transformation. One should briefly refer to the methodology approached by Novobátzky in his research. He is convinced that the axiom of nature is presented in simple forms. This might be the reason why he was not fond of complicated and ingenious derivations. His favourite research methodology consisted in the approach of the diversified concepts. Given their heuristic strength, they can provide us with the most general elaboration of the natural rights.

He dies on December 20, 1967 in Budapest. His memory is also preserved in the name of the prize awarded by the „Eötvös Loránd” Physics Association.