Pál Jedlovszky

At the beginning of his career, he first worked at the United Pharmaceutical and Nutrition Factory, then at Péti Nitrogénművek, later at Vegyterv, and then from 1968 to 1975 at the Automation Research Institute (AKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was then that he committed himself to mathematical modeling, of which he became an excellent practitioner. He felt it was his mission to spread object-oriented programming; he wrote a book on the application of SIMULA 67.

He became a candidate in 1975, with a solution for the mathematical modeling of rectifying columns. His results can be considered the direct predecessor of the method used today. At that time, he joined BME, where he worked full-time until his retirement in 1995. He taught computer science at the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Chemistry, and then, after the department's transformation, at the Department of Chemical Informatics. In 1988/89, he was a visiting professor at Breward Community College in the United States, and then at Pusan National University in Korea in 1993/94.

After his retirement, he taught at Gábor Dénes College. It was then that he wrote his book. "UNIX Step by Step" is the cornerstone of programming for every beginner programmer. For 12 years, as the president of the College's Scientific Student Council, he organized the Scientific Student Circle movement, found and supported excellent students.

He joined the Hungarian Chemists' Association (MKE) in 1974. His scientific and public activity in several international professional organizations was outstanding. He was the one who created the "system-changing" statutes of the MKE, which had a fundamentally new approach.

His work was recognized by the National Academy of Sciences and Humanities with the Kalmár Award in 1988.