Gyula Pályi was (retired) full Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia who now works as a Research Fellow in the Department of Life Sciences of the same University. He obtained a Diploma in Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Budapest (1963), Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Pisa (Italy, 1969), and Dr. Sci. at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1981). He became an honorary Professor at the University of Veszprém (1982). Pályi worked in the chemical industry (Egyesült Vegyiművek, Budapest), 1959–1966, and at the Research Group for Petrochemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as Deputy Head, 1966-1986; then, he worked as full Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Modena (later Modena and Reggio Emilia),1987-2008. Pályi started his research activity in the field of organic electrochemistry (until 1966); then, he was active in transition organometallic catalytic chemistry, and from ca. 2000, he started research on the origin of biological chirality. He is the author of ca. 200 publications and author/editor of 6 books. He became a full member of the (Italian) National Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts (Modena) in 2000 and a corresponding member of the (Italian) National Academy of Sciences (XL, Rome) in 2003. Pályi obtained a Golden (2013) and a Diamond (2023) Diploma of Merit from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.