Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the claimed inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM.
Pavel graduated with a physics degree from the University of Bucharest in 1976.[1] He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1991 and obtained his doctorate in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992.[2]
He won the "Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique" and a gold medal at the November 1999 EUREKA Contest in Brussels for inventions that led to the creation of the Hyper CD-ROM. Dr. Pavel has published more than 40 books and articles, and he is the holder of 62 patents and patent applications.[1]