KÁLMÁN
TARNAY
KÁLMÁN
TARNAY
(1929 - 1998)
Kálmán Tarnay was born on
6 November 1929 in Nyiregyháza, Hungary. He graduated Budapest
Technical University (BTU) in 1952, was awarded a University Doctor's
(Master's) degree (1961) and a Ph.D. degree (1966) both in BTU. He
joined the BTU Department of Electron Devices, where he remained
until his death from the post of Full Professor in 1998. Between 1975
and 1983 he acted as Head of the Department. Prof. Tarnay was the
Fellow of IEEE. He was an Honorary Professor at the Uppsala
University and the Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science
and Art.
Kálmán Tarnay was a most
distinguished engineer and a leader in the field of microelectronics
and electronics design in Hungary. The theory of tunnel diode
developed by him in early sixties gave the general explanation of
underlying physics principles of such devices. The simulation
packages PN-Junction, TRANZ-TRAN and STEP were strong competitors to
such worldwide well-known packages as SPICE and SUPREM. He introduced
the pioneering activity in the field of alpha-particle stimulated
avalanche processes in nano-metric MOS structures, reached in the
last decade of this millennium in 3D Monte-Carlo method based
modelling and simulation.
Kálmán Tarnay was an
inspired teacher and gathered many post-graduate students and
research workers around him. He was constantly active in the
organization of international scientific meetings. Kálmán
Tarnay was the author or editor of numerous books on the
microelectronics and electronics design related topics.
Kálmán Tarnay was a
sought-after lecturer and welcome visitor at many international
institutions. He is particularly remembered at Uppsala University,
Helsinki University of Technology, Dresden Technical University,
Tallinn Technical University and Kiev Polytechnic Institute. He was a
strong supporter of Hungarian-Estonian-Finnish cooperation in the
field of Information Technology. Kálmán Tarnay was one
of the initiators of idea to bring the Baltic Electronics Conference
on the international level.
Kálmán Tarnay was widely
read person and was a very moral man. We have lost very intellectual
person and I personally have lost a good friend.
Prof. Toomas Rang
General Chairman of BEC2000