Laszlo Z. Bito
Laszlo Z. Bito (born 7 September 1934, Budapest) is a physiologist and a writer.  As a researcher he has developed a medicine for glaucoma.  As a writer he writes novels and essays.

# Biography
Laszlo Bito was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was family was forced to leave Budapest during Communism. He served in a mine in Komlo and became a local leader of the revolution in 1956. After the revolution was crushed by Russian forces he fled to the United States where he won a scholarship and became a physiologist.

# Scientific career
In the United States Laszlo Bito has built an academic career as an internationally-known professor of physiology. Most of his academic career is connected to Columbia University (where he Professor Emeritus of Ocular Physiology) and to University of Puerto Rico where he studied the change via ageing in the eyes of apes. The fruit of his research is Xalatan, the medicine for glaucoma that he has developed brought a fundamental change to the management of this blinding disease.  He published more than 140 scientific papers and was awarded with  the Proctor Medal (2004) and Columbia University Award for Distinguished Achievement (2004).

# Writing
Laszlo Bito gradually moved back to Hungary after the fall of Communism and started a new career as a writer. His first novels are based on his early personal memories of Hungarian history. Istenjaras (Quick Step) and Az Otodik Lovas (The Fifth Horseman) were written in English but published only in Hungarian translations. His first novel which is based on Biblical stories, Abraham and Isaac brought him literary success in 1998. The book was translated to several languages and was staged in Budapest. The Teachings of Isaac and Isaac of Nazareth followed the philosophical ideas in Abraham and Isaac to a logical conclusion.
His most recent books are the work of an American citizen and a Hungarian patriot. Nekunk kell megvaltanunk magunkat (We Must Be Our Own Saviors) is a selection of his newspaper and magazine articles and interviews. Eutalia  Euthanasia (Blissful Life - Peaceful Death) is a philosofical writers and a humanist medical researchers argument about dignity in life and death. Az utolso merfold (The Last Mile) written together with Polcz, Alaine, a Hungarian writer and founder of the Hungarian hospice service, is a book about preparing to die.

# Books

## Academic publications
- The Ocular and Cerebrospinal Fluids, with Davson H, Fenstermacher JD (Eds.),Academic Press, London, 1977.
- The Ocular Effects of Prostaglandins and Other Eicosanoids, with Stjernschantz J (Eds), Alan R. Liss, New York, 1989.
- Ocular Effects of Prostaglandins and Other Eicosanoids (Ed), Special Supplement based on the 9th International PG Symposium (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12-13 May 1995) and the ARVO SIG Sessions on Latanoprost (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 22-23 April 1996). Survey of Ophthalmology Vol. 41, Suppl 2, 1997.

## Novels
- Istenjaras, (Quick Step), Aura, 1994. (Translated from English by Arpad Goncz and Pal Bekes) ISBN 963-7913-15-7
- Az otodik lovas, (The Fifth Horseman), Aura, 1996. (Translated by Pal Bekes) ISBN 963-7913-17-3
- Abraham es Izsak,(Abraham and Isaac), Magyar Konyvklub, 1998. ISBN 963-548-698-7 es Argumentum Kiado, 2000. ISBN 963-446-158-1
- Izsak tanitasa, (The Teachings of Isaac), Argumentum Kiado, 2000. ISBN 963-446-131-X
- A Nazareti Izsak, (Isaac of Nazareth), Argumentum Kiado, 2002. ISBN 963-446-208-1

## Essays and collections
- Nekunk kell megvaltanunk magunkat, (We must be our own saviors), Argumentum Kiado, 2004. ISBN 963-446-288-X.
- Boldogabb elet - Jo halal, (Blissful Life - Peaceful Death), Anthenaeum 2000 Kiado, 2005. ISBN 963-9471-82-8.
- Gaspar, Menyhert, Boldizsar, Karacsonyi os-okumenia, (Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar), Ecumenical Chanuka and Christmas story with 30 fullpage color illustrations by Wanda Szyksznian, Jelenkor Kiado, 2006. ISBN 963-676-409-3
- Az utolso merfold (The Last Mile) (with Polcz, Alaine), Jelenkor Kiado, 2007. ISBN 9789636764180 (jo halal)

# Links
- Author's homepage
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