Lajos G. Balázs (b. 1941) has been the director of the Konkoly Observatory since 1996. His main field of research is the study of statistical phenomena in astronomy, with particular application to γ-ray bursters, interstellar matter and star formation. He was the codiscoverer of supernova 1969B.
Discovered on 26-8-2003 in Piszkesteto by Sarneczky, K., Sipocz, B.