Bela Zentai

Date of birth:
1914.04.27.
Place of birth:
Poprad
Date of death:
1980.01.15.
Education, professional qualification:
  • Mechanical Engineer - Hungarian Royal József Nádor University of Technology and Economics - 1937.
  • engineer-economist - Budapest University of Technology

  • From 1938 to 1944 he was an engineer in the study department of the Ganz Electricity Company.

    He was the first president of the Association of Technical and Natural Science Associations (MTESZ), founded in 1948. From 1949 he was the chief engineer of the Csepel Car Factory, from 1953 he was the chief engineer of the Láng Machine Factory, and between 1954 and 1957 he was the chief energetics officer of the Ministry of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering (KGM).

    One of the founders of the National Technical Development Committee (OMFB). From 1962 until his death, he was the head of the department of the OMFB, and in the early 1970s, together with several others, he developed and supported the Central Computer Development Program (SZKFP).

    His work was recognized by the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences with the Neumann Prize in 1978.

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    • He served his labor service in Transylvania in 1940, and on the front in the Don Bend in 1942-1943.

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