 In 1941 he became full professor at the Technical University of Budapest, and in 1950 he was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Research Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.Egerváry received the Gyula Kőnig Prize in 1932 and the Kossuth Prize in 1949 and 1953.He committed suicide in 1958 because of the troubles caused to him by the communist bureaucracy.