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Romanian professor
"University of Iasi owes him some of its glory, physics owes some classic findings. .. His students and students of his students, honor and will honor his name", so characterized the physicist Dr. Hurmuzescu, another great physicist, scientist Stefan Procopiu.
Dragomir Hurmuzescu was born in Bucharest in 1865, he attended secondary education at the "College of St. Sava" in Bucharest, also here he obtained license in chemical physics (1887).
He claimed a PhD degree in physics (1890), with highest distinction, with a work about the electrodynamic constant. He was associate professor of physics and mathematics (1896-1897), then professor of physics (in1897) at the University of Iasi, where he established a modern physics laboratory.
Hurmuzescu contributed to the foundation of the Science Society of Sciences and to the prestigious university publication ("Annales Scientifiques de l'Université de Jassy"), it was published in French to raise awareness and contributions of scientists abroad Iasi (Hurmuzescu was editorial secretary of the journal).
Dragomir Hurmuzescu was founder of the School of Physics of Iaşi, school that formed many gifted scientists, as Stefan Procopiu, CG Bedreag and others.
Along with academic work, he was Professor and Director of Boarding High School of Iaşi.
He also set up, in the Faculty of Science, The Superior School of electricity in Iaşi (1910-1912), at a time when it was not yet provided in Romania, education for specialists in electricity. This institution is subsequently, the Electrotechnical Institute of the University of Iasi (1913), an important hub of higher electrotechnic education in Romania and the future Polytechnic School "George Asachi" of iaşi.
Transferred to the University of Bucharest in 1913, as professor of "heat and power applications", Dragomir Hurmuzescu preserved this job until 1937, he was also Dean of the Faculty of Sciences in Bucharest. He established here the University Electrotechnical Institute and managed it until unification with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic School of Bucharest. In 1916 he was elected member of the Romanian Academy, and later was one of the founders of the Academy of Sciences of Romania.
Beeing a visionary, Dragomir Hurmuzescu participated at the first national broadcasting programs (1926) and also he was president of the Friends of Radiophone Association. His scientific merits are important, related to fundamental physics issues - such as determining the ratio of electrostatic and electromagnetic units -as well as applied problems, such as the implementation in 1895 of a high voltage dynam (3000 V - then one of the highest voltage obtained at that time) with four rotors fixed on the same axis.
He invented a new type of insolation material - dielectrina (1894) (based on a mixture of sulfur and paraffin), with it he built the first modern electroscope (mass produced abroad) – the so-called H electroscope with electrostatic screen - it served H. Becquerel for discovering radioactivity and Marie and Pierre Curie for radium isolation. Together with L. Benoist, he discovered X-rays property to discharge electrified bodies, and together with the great neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu made the first world photographs with patients suffering from disease called acromegaly.
He was an important promoter of technical applications in physics and first author of radio research in Romania (1902). To honor his memory, today, one of the Romanian Academy Awards, got his name.
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variant spelling:
Hurmuzescu, Dragomir
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1865
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born
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1887
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1890
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1896 - 1897
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Iasi
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1897
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1913
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† 1954
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