Eugen Pavel is a

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n scientist and the claimed inventor of the '' Hyper CD-ROM''. Pavel graduated with a

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degree from the

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in 1976. He was awarded the

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Prize in 1991 and obtained his

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in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992. The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technologies "Euro-Asia"
''The

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era sets - the Pavel era begins.'' He won the "Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique" and a gold medal at the November 1999

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Contest in

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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.

Hyper CD-ROM

The Hyper CD-ROM is a proposed

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medium which uses '' Fluorescent Multilayer Disc''PC World, 12 October 2000
Hyper CD-ROM Packs Terabytes technology with a reported capacity of 1 PB and a theoretical capacity of 100 EBThe Register, 19 January 2012
''Holographic storage's corpse twitches'' on a single disc. Despite its bold claims the technology has not been shown as a working prototype in the over twenty years since its announcement. The Hyper CD-ROM technology is patented in 21 countries: the USA, Canada, Japan, Israel and 17 European states. In an interview about his work on the Hyper CD-ROM, Dr. Pavel stated that "the research for this project is 100% personal, ndso is the support for experiments."

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