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Tétényi, Pál (1929)
He studied at Budapest Technical University in 1948-9 and Moscow State University in 1949-53. He became a scientific researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1957, serving as a fellow of the Academy's Isotope Institute in 1959-70, where he was director in 1970-75. In 1970-75, he was also deputy general secretary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1977-82, he was secretary of the government's Scientific Policy Committee. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party in 1982-9 and a department head at the Central Committee in 1982-5. In 1985-9, he chaired the National Technical Development Committee. 
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