Born in
Szolnok, Hungary, Laki completed doctoral studies in chemistry at the
University of Szeged before coming to the United States in 1947 as an NIH scientist. A substance they identified, initially named Laki–Lorand factor, became known as
factor XIII. Laki was awarded an honorary medical degree from the
University of Debrecen. He had been in the hospital after minor surgery when he had a
heart attack. ==References==