László Kalmár

László Kalmár ( born March 27, 1905 in Edde; † August 2, 1976 in Mátraháza ) was a Hungarian computer scientists and mathematical logician.

Kalmar studied from 1922 at the University of Budapest, among others, József Kürschák and Lipót Fejér his doctorate in 1926 at Fejer, and then in 1929 at the University of Göttingen, where his interest began to mathematical logic. After that, he was at the University of Szeged, where he was assistant to Frigyes Riesz and Alfred hair first and 1947 received a full professorship in mathematics. He founded the cybernetics laboratory and dealt with mathematical logic and computer science.

Kalmar was after the war as the leading mathematical logician and pioneer of theoretical computer science in Hungary.

In 1949 he was inducted into the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1950 he was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1975 and the Hungarian State Prize. In 1996 he received the Computer Pioneer Award.