1939 ? born in Zalaegerszeg on June 8
1963 ? receives diploma from the Pécs Medical University where he was a student of János Szentágothai, among others
1963-present ? works, together with professors, in the No. 1 and No. 2 Anatomy Institutes of the Semmelweis Medical University; becomes a university teacher in 1986; is director of the No. 1 Anatomy Institute in 1994-2004; is picked from four candidates to head the Semmelweis Medical University in the first free election of a rector in 1991; heads the Semmelweis Medical University Health Affairs Manager Training Centre for five years from 1995; heads the Semmelweis Medical University János Szentágothai Neurology Graduate School from 2000
Works in Ukraine, Paris and the United States; appointed head of department at the Social Security Ministry in 1990; heads Ministry of Education?s scientific affairs department in 1998-99; awarded Széchenyi professors scholarship in 1999-2002.
1994-2000 ? is a member of the general assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as of the Theoretical Medical Sciences Committee and the Information Technology Committee; serves as secretary of the Hungarian National committee for the International Brain Research Organisation
Awarded title of doctor of medical sciences in 1983; work acknowledged with the Academy Prize in 1991 and the Szent-Györgyi Prize in 2004
Réthelyi is the author of more than 80 publications
