Famous people and scientists

‘If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world. ‘

-Well known people -Less known scientists

-Recent scientists

-A little dilemma

-Q & A

Well known: Mircea Eliade

Eliade often implies the existence of a universal psychological or spiritual essence behind all religious phenomena. He thinks a religious phenomenon cannot be reduced to a product of culture and history. He insists that, although religion involves "the social man, the economic man, and so forth", nonetheless "all these conditioning factors together do not, of themselves, add up to the life of the spirit“.

Well known: Emil Cioran

Cioran’s works encompass many themes as: original sin, the tragic sense of history, the end of civilization, the refusal of consolation through faith, the obsession with the absolute, life as an expression of man's metaphysical exile. The theme of human alienation, the most prominent existentialist theme, presented by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, is thus formulated, in 1932, by young Cioran: "Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?" in On the Heights of Despair.

Well known: Eugen Ionescu

Ionesco is often considered a writer of the Theatre of the Absurd. Some of his plays include: The bald Soprano, The lesson, The chair, The picture, Improvisation and Exit the king.

Well known: Nicolae Titulescu

Titulescu was a Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign affairs minister. He is well known for being president twice of League of Nations in Geneva.

Well known: Nicolae Paulescu

In 1916, he succeeded in developing an aqueous pancreatic extract which, when injected into a diabetic dog, proved to have a normalizing effect on blood sugar levels. While Paulescu had patented his technique in Romania, no clinical use resulted from his work, as his saline extract could not be used on humans. So, in 1923 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of insulin treatment was received by a team from Toronto University.

Well known: Constantin Brancusi

Considered a pioneer of modernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brancusi is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.

Well known: Constantin Brancusi

The Kiss

Well known: Constantin Brancusi

Bird in Space

Well known: Constantin Brancusi

Sleeping Muse I

Well known: Constantin Brancusi

Madame L.R

Well known: Constantin Brancusi

Doodle, 19 february 2011

Well known: Henri Coanda

Coanda was an aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft. He discovered the Coanda effect of fluid dynamics. Coanda’s effect is used in:

- high-lift devices on aircraft- cardiovascular medicine- Formula One

Well known: Henri Coanda

Coanda-1910 airplane

Less known: Hermann Oberth

He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. Hermann Oberth was the first, who when thinking about the possibility of spaceships grabbed a slide-rule and presented mathematically analyzed concepts and designs. The Oberth effect, in which a rocket engine when traveling at high speed generates more useful energy than one traveling at low speed, is named after him.

Recent: Preda Mihailescu

Mihailescu is a Romanian mathematician. In 2002, Mihăilescu proved Catalan's conjecture. This number-theoretical conjecture, formulated by the French and Belgian mathematician Eugène Catalan in 1844, had stood unresolved for 158 years. The result is now occasionally known as Mihăilescu's theorem. Catalan’s theorem states that the unique solution for xa - yb

= 1 , with x, a, y, b > 1 is x = b = 3 and y = a = 2.

Recent: Mihai Patrascu

Patrascu was a Romanian computer scientist who completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at MIT. Patrascu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. He received the Machtey Award and the Presburger Award. Patrascu passed away in 2012 after suffering from brain cancer for a year and a half.

Recent: Mihai Patrascu

Mikkel Thorup about Mihai Patrascu:“Mihai’s academic career was short but explosive,

full of rich and beautiful ideas as witnessed.”

Open Problems: http://www.eatcs.org/beatcs/index.php/beatcs/article/view/22/17

A little dilemma: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was the inventor of alternating current.He won the battle with his competitor Edison and his direct current. He created the first wireless communication. Guglielmo Marconi made his famous first-ever transatlantic radio transmission in 1901, using more than 17 Tesla’s patents. Tesla was not interested in radio communication, his biggest dream was to made a system of transmitting electrical energy wireless.

Q & A

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