Tihamér Nemes

He worked for a short time at the Lloyd aircraft factory. From 1921 he joined Telefonhírmondó, and was then appointed its chief engineer. At the age of 30 he became the director of the Elektromos és Finommechanikai Rt. From 1929 he worked at the Posta Kísérleti Stánomás.

He began the theoretical and practical study of television in the mid-1930s. He participated in the first domestic experiments. In 1938, he filed a patent application for the implementation of color television.

In 1950, he became a scientific associate at the Telecommunications Research Institute. His interests included electrical engineering, logic, simulation, modeling, but most of all the logic machine. Tihamér Nemes' chess-playing and chess-solving machines also served primarily to model human thinking. His numerous television patents simulated the functions of the human eye.

As a postal engineer, he was one of the founders of Hungarian television. In 1953, he created the first Hungarian experimental TV transmitter.

He was awarded the title of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 1957. The National Informatics Study Competition is named after him.