László Schnell

After completing his university studies, he was a demonstrator at the Budapest University of Technology (BME). In 1958, he joined the Department of Instrumentation and Precision Mechanics (later renamed Instrumentation and Measurement Engineering) of BME. Since the head of the department, Professor Richárd Kolos, was unable to spend much time at the University due to his duties as deputy minister, Schnell took a large part in the operational management of the Department. In August 1965, he was appointed a university professor.

In 1967, he took over the leadership of the Department of Instrumentation and Measurement Technology (as it was permanently named after him: the Schnell Department), which later underwent several further changes, and managed it until his retirement in 1988. He initiated the organization of an independent Technical Informatics major at the University's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (VIK).

He defended his candidate's thesis in 1961 and his academic doctoral thesis in 1974. He is the recipient of the Schnell László Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Foundation and the Schnell László Diploma Award (founded by Gamma Digital Kft. in 2013).

Honors: State Prize (shared, 1985); Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary, Civil Division (Hungarian State, 1993). (He received the State Prize for his outstanding achievements in the development of an integrated design, manufacturing and control system for microprocessor-based devices and in the dissemination of its industrial application.)