Famous people of mycountry

Romanian Team

Dichiseni School

Comenius Project

”FIVE SENSES”

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Emil Racoviță

• Emil Racoviță was a Romanian biologist, zoologist,speleologist, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life.

• Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania.

• Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic, more than 100 years ago, as well as an influential professor, scholar and researcher.

Gheorghe Hagi

Gheorghe Hagi is

a Romanian former footballer,

considered the best attacking

midfielder in Europe during

the 1980s and 1990s and the

greatest Romanian footballer

of all time.

Galatasaray fans called

him 'Comandante' (The

Commander) and Romanians

called him 'Regele' (The

King).

Pictures

Hagi was and still is the power

of Romanian football!

Constantin Brâncuși

Romanian Sculptor

Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer offmodernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools.

Famous monuments from Romania

Column of the Infinite Gate of the Kiss

Table of Silence

Wisdom

• (Romanian) "Am șlefuit materia pentru

a afla linia continuă. Și când am

constatat că n-o pot afla, m-am oprit;

parcă cineva nevăzut mi-a dat peste

mâini."

• (English) ”I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.“

• (Romanian) "Muncește ca un sclav,

poruncește ca un rege, creează ca un

zeu.“

• (English)"Work like a slave; command like a king; create like a god."

Mircea Eliade

• Mircea Eliade ( 1907 -

1986), historian of religions,

phenomenologist of religion, and

author of novels, novellas, and

short stories.

• His Ph.D. thesis was titled,

Yoga: Essai sur les origines de

la mystique Indienne (Yoga: An

Essay on the origins of Indian

mysticism), and this was the first

ever exhaustive study on yoga

to have been published by a

westerner.

• Eliade was one

of the most

influential

scholars of

religion of the

20th century and

one of the

world’s foremost

interpreters of

religious

symbolism and

myth.

Madalina Radu

• Cosmos and

History: The Myth of

the Eternal Return

• The Sacred and the

Profane: The Nature

of Religion

• Myths, Dreams and

Mysteries: the

Encounter between

Contemporary

Faiths and Archaic

Realities

• A History of

Religious Ideas

Henri Coanda

• In 1910, he designed, built and piloted the first jet

plane, known as the Coanda-1910, which he exhibited

at the second International Aeronautic Salon in Paris.

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• 1930, he

discovered the

Coanda effect

that is the

tendency of a

stream of fluid to

stay attached to a

convex surface,

rather than follow

a straight line in

its original

direction.

• In 1935, he designed the Aerodina Lenticulara, which

was very similar in shape with what is known today as

“flying saucer” = ”Coanda’s UFO”.

Nadia Comaneci

• Nadia Comaneci (born

1961) is one of the most-

celebrated gymnasts in

the history of the sport.

• At the 1976 Olympic

Games in Montreal,

Quebec, Canada, she was

the first person in

Olympic history to score

a perfect 10 in

gymnastics.

• In all, she earned seven

perfect scores at the 1976

games.

At Laureus Ceremony Award

Georghe Zamfir

• Gheorghe Zamfir is

without a doubt the

world's best-known

pan flute player.

• He has made

numerous recordings

and became widely

popular in the latter

decades of the

twentieth century

• Zamfir's unique style of

playing is characterized by

the bending of pitches and

imaginative improvisation.

• He has been featured on

the soundtracks of

numerous films, including

Picnic at Hanging Rock

and The Karate Kid.

• His albums for Philips have

included Music by

Candlelight (1983),

Romance (1984), A Return

to Romance (1988), and

Magic of the Panpipes

(2001).

Costin Mitrea

Ilie Nastase

• No player in history has

been more gifted or

mystifying than the

'Bucharest Buffoon', Ilie

Nastase, noted both for

his sorcery with the

racket and his bizarre,

even objectionable

behavior.

• During his illustrious career, he won two Grand Slam

singles titles - the US Open in 1972 and the French Open

in 1973. Nastase was runner-up at Wimbledon in 1972

and 1976 and, in all, he won 57 career singles titles and

51 doubles titles.

Nicolae Teclu

• Romanian chemist, who gave his name to the worldwide-used "Tecluburner".

• He studied engineering and architecture, and then chemistry, continuing his career by becoming professor for general and analytical chemistry in Vienna.

• He also contributed substantially to the worldwide development of chemistry.

George Emil Palade

• (1912 – 2008) was a

Romanian cell

biologist. In 1974 he

was awarded the

Nobel Prize in

Physiology and

Medicine, for his

innovations in

electron microscopy

and cell fractionation

which together laid

the foundations of

modern molecular cell

biology together with

Albert Claude and

Christian de Duve.

• Palade also

received the U.S.

National Medal of

Science in

Biological Sciences

for "pioneering

discoveries of a

host of

fundamental,

highly organized

structures in living

cells" in 1986, and

was previously

elected a Member

of the US National

Academy of

Science in 1961.Radu Madalina

Eugen Ionescu (French – Eugène Ionesco

(1909 – 1994)

• One of the foremost Romanian playwrights, who wrote in French, he was also one of the most prominent figures linked to the Theater of the Absurd.

• He is known for his innovations brought to the dramatic techniques used in the field of theater.

• His works render his

vision on the individual's

struggle to survive in a

society that isolates and

alienates people.

• Some of his famous

works include, Les

Chaises (The Chairs

(1952), Tueur sans

gages, (The Killer), 1959;

Le Roi se meurt (Exit the

King), 1962; and La Soif

et la faim (Hunger and

Thirst), 1966.

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Dichiseni School

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