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Romanian mathematician
A meaningful story: At a congress held in Cambridge (England), an older astronomer approached a young Romanian participant and addressed the words: "I am glad to be able to know the famous Romanian astronomer’s son Pârvulescu". In fact, the man who stood in front of him was Constantin Pârvulescu himself, but the British specialist could not believe that the scientist whose discoveries had so much stir, was so young. The greater his surprise and joy were and then the discussion took place in the realm of the latest achievements of stars science.
He was among the scientists whose passion for knowledge could be seen early. Born in Ploiesti, he attended elementary and secondary education in this city, fascinated by the popular writings on astronomy by Victor Anestin and Camille Flammarion. He got a modest scope since high school and made his first observations of the sky, very rigorously, later published in "Orion" - the first Romanian Astronomical Journal (led by Victor Anestin). He attended the Mathematics Department, Faculty of Sciences in Bucharest. He got licensed in 1915 and worked for some time as a trainee at the Bucharest Astronomical Observatory and also as teacher at high schools in Bucharest and Ploiesti. The sky meant not his only interest in astronomy, but also in aviation. During World War I he distinguished himself as a volunteer aviator, contributing with observations to the historical victory of Romanians at Marasesti. He was cited by order of the day for the whole army. In 1925, he became doctor with a thesis on globular swarm stars, often referred to in specialized treaties. Subsequently, he engaged in a fruitful teaching activity as university lecturer and then professor (1925-1945), in Czernowitz, Bucharest, Timisoara and Cluj.
He was a member of the International Astronomical Union, the body which adopted a number of his proposals, for example the unification of the galactic pole in stellar astronomy calculations and the unification of distribution maps of galactic objects. He used to be considered an authority on the study of globular cluster stars, his method of stellar density assessment being cited and used in the writings of known astronomers such as W.M. Smart and E.P. Hubble. His observations allowed him the discovery of dwarf star no. 1166 - the third celestial body of this kind known until now, featuring a fantastic density (100 000 times the density of water). He issued the idea of galaxies’ pulsation, further carried on by other researchers. In addition, Constantin Pârvulescu published in 1937 an interesting history of Romanian astronomy. His colleagues valued him for both strength and ability to work and his kind and full of tenderness attitude to those nearby, as well as for the democratic belief that he always exhibited. Unfortunately, a relentless heart disease killed him at only 55 years old. Constantin Pârvulescu remains in the annals of astronomy as an ardent researcher of the Universe, author of some original assumptions upon its evolution.
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Orthographe également utilisé:
Parvulescu, Constantin
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Curriculum Vitae
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* 1890
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Ploiesti, Romania
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Né
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1915
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Bucureşti, Romania
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Mathematician
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1925
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Bucureşti, Romania
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Ph.D.
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† 1945
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Décédé
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