Miklós Kretzoi

Miklós Kretzoi (9 February 1907 – 15 March 2005) was a Hungarian geologist, paleontologist and paleoanthropologist[1][2] and Széchenyi Prize winner.

[3] Kretzoi studied Arts and natural sciences at the then Pázmány Péter University, Budapest from 1925 to 1929.

[1] In 1930 he graduated from the University of Pécs with a PhD in Palaeontology, Geology and Geography.

He remained at Hungarian-American Oil until the outbreak of the Second World War.

[4] From the mid-1960s he led the "digs" at Rudabánya where a number of Anthropoid fossil remains were discovered.