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Romanian professor
It is hard to make discoveries in science, especially when it comes to basic knowledge. The first Romanian scientist, who made such a discovery, in electricity, was Constantin Budeanu. That is why, when the study of electricity and electrical engineering is so advanced in our country, we ought to remember those who made the first scientific contributions in this direction. And among them, a place of honor is reserved to the scholar and Professor Constantin Budeanu.
Born at Buzau in 1886, he attended high school "Alecsandri" in his home city, then he became, in 1903, a student of the National School of Bridges and Highways in Bucharest - higher education institution that later became the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest and today is called the University Politehnica Bucuresti. Upon graduation, in 1908, he obtained a scholarship of the Romanian Academy for specialization. Attracted to study, in 1916, he became assistant to the Electricity and Electrical School - the same university where he studied and never left until his retirement in 1959. He had a full teaching career, taking all steps and ending up as head of department, esteemed and loved by all his colleagues, who were at the same time his former students. The characteristic of Constantin Budeanu was his permanent wish to understand as well as possible the sense of physical phenomena that he came upon. In the middle of an age when studying electrical engineering just started, he made important contributions, recognized worldwide, such as the discovery of so-called deformation energy - physical quantity described for the first time in the world by Constantin Budeanu, in relation with electrical phenomena in nonlinear networks (1927).
Today we know that, actually, deformation energy is found in any periodic nonlinear phenomena, regardless of its physical nature. In addition, Constantin Budeanu gave a new definition of reactive energy. Both concepts introduced by the Romanian scientist have important applications especially in energy, transportation and electricity pricing. Constantin Budeanu also emphasized the need to clearly distinguish the physical size of the unit that measures it. In his constant desire to clarify the encountered phenomena, the scientist introduced a new class of size systems, so-called symmetric systems which have taken his name. During his long and rich work, Constantin Budeanu was always concerned about both theoretical aspects of electrical phenomena and practical ones. He worked in production in many directions, such as upgrading rail traction, electrical traction, etc. For his outstanding merits, he was elected member of the Romanian Academy (1938), member of the R.P.R. Academy (1955), and of other foreign academies and companies. But his merits are so much greater, as he played an important role in the development, in Bucharest, of higher education in Electrical, as he published scientific and technical valuable papers. In his scientific work, Constantin Budeanu sought to use the most modern mathematical methods, without losing any moment the physical meaning of the studied phenomena. He is the first Romanian engineer who registered his names in both electrical engineering and general theory of science, by means of his great value discoveries.
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variant spelling:
Budeanu, Constantin
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1886
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Buzau, Romania
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born
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1908
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Bucureşti, Romania
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Engineer
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† 1959
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died
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