Professor Nicholas Kurti (Hungarian: Kürti Miklós) FRS (14 May 1908 - 24 November 1998) was a Hungarian-born physicist who lived in Oxford, UK, for most of his life.Born in Budapest, he went to high school at the Minta Gymnasium, but due to anti-Jewish laws he had to leave the country, gaining his master's degree at the Sorbonne in Paris. He obtained his doctorate in low-temperature physics in Berlin, working with Professor Franz Simon.