*Curriculum Vitae*

*Pal Greguss* (born: Budapest, 1921), a chemical engineer and physicist
(1944, University of Szeged, Hungary), received his Ph.D. in chemical
effects of ultrasound in 1951 (University of Szeged).

*/Main appointments/*: Assistant Professor of Biophysics at the Eötvös
Lorand University, Budapest, Research Physicist at the Central Physical
Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1949-1956), and
then Head of the Ultrasonic Research Laboratory established at the
Railway Scientific Research Institute (1956-1976.) Invited Senior
Research Scientist at the Central Mechanical Research Institute in
Durgapur, W.Bengal, India, in 1966/67, and he joined the Department of
Ophthalmology of the New York Medical College as a Research Professor of
Applied Biophysics in 1969. He moved from here to Darmstadt, FRG, 1973,
to become Professor at the Physics Institute of the Technische
Hochschule Darmstadt, and at the Coherent Optics Laboratory of the
Gesellschaft für Strahlen- und Umweltforschung mbH, respectively.

He returned to Hungary in 1976 as Director of the newly established
Applied Biophysics Laboratory of the Technical University Budapest, from
where he became Professor Emeritus in 1990. Scientific Consultant at the
"Frédéric Joliot-Curie" National Research Institute for Radiobiology and
Radiohygiene (1990-1994), and at present, Scientific Consultant at the
Dept. of Manufacture Engineering of the Technical University Budapest.

He was elected /Fellow of the Optical Society of America /(1978),
received from WFUMB (World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and
Biology) and AIUM (American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine) the
/Pioneer Award/ in medical ultrasonics (1988), and /NASA’s Certificate
of Recognition/ for radial metrology, that was based on his invention,
the PAL-optic (1989). For the same invention and its applications he
received the “/Invenció’91” Award /from the Hungarian Association of
Inventors/ (1991), /for its further development, the humanoid vision
module, the /Genius ‘96 Oscar Award/ (1996), and for its improved and
further developed version, the “Humanoid Machine Vision System in Space,
on Earth and Under Water”, the /Gold Medal of the 1st Inventors' Olympic
Games - Genius' 98/ (1998). He became /Honorary Professor/ of the
University of Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Hefei (1979), /Member Emeritus of the New York Academy of Sciences/
(1991), and was elected as the /first Honorary Member of the
International Society for Optics Within Life Sciences - OWLS/ - (1992).

He is author of over 330 scientific publications including several
books, and owner of more than 20 patents all around the world. He is
member of several professional societies and editorial boards of optical
and ultrasonic journals.

He is the President of the Curatorium of the International Dennis Gabor
Award of the NOVOFER Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation.

He is ExecutiveVice-President of the Hungarian-American Society Budapest.

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