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1. Dragomir Hurmuzescu

A hundred years ago, in 1894, the physicist Dragomir Hurmuzescu, built the
electroscope which carries his name, with the insulating material named by him dielectrina,
used in many laboratories for researching process of ionization and radioactive process.
The founder of the electrical education and the initiator of the first
experimental physics school in Romania, Dragomir Hurmuzescu is one of the representative
Romanian physicist in the late nineteenth century and early of XX century.
Born on 13 May, 1865 in Bucharest he studies gymnasium at Michael Bravu from 1881 to
1887, his attending, with some interruptions and hesitations Faculty of Science in Bucharest. In
1887, after a contest, he gets the scholarship Joseph Niculescu, which assures a shift studies in
Paris, where after three years his getting the degree in chemical physics at the Faculty of Science,
University of Paris. He is noticed as Professor Gabriel Lippman(discoverer of color photography
and Nobel laureate), wich allows him to his lab electricity and heat. After 6 years in this
laboratory, obtained his Ph. D. in physics. His thesis is experimental and refers to the
measurement with high accuracy, the ratio UES (electrostatic unit) has electric charge and EMU
(electromagnetic unit) of electric charge, which according to Maxwells theory it has to equal to
the speed of light in vacuum. The result is quoted in conventional electricity treaties (eg that of
Jeanes).
In this period there are some relevant achievements, such as the construction
of a dynamo, which provide a voltage V 3x1000, build an electroscope improved (with Pierre
and Marie in 1899 will be their first experiment of radium and Becquerel will use it in 1903 in
radioactivity research, distinguished with Nobel Prize), and the third one, the making of the new
insulation used in the construction of electroscopes and is called Dielectrina.
In 1896, Dragomir Hurmuzescu returns to country with a degree in
physics(being ranked first in the class), the doctorate in physics, and more other experimental
research. In country, he continues the scientific research activity, building new types of
electroscopes and electrometer, concomitant to the initiation of new lines of research.: wireless
telegraphy, radioactivity of oil and mineral water from Romania.
With the inauguration of the new palace of University of Iasi, in October 1898, is made available
for him, from the Romanian state, the amount of 150.000 lei gold to occupy a modern physics
laboratory. In 1900 became profesoor at the Department of gravity, heat and electricity. In the
same year Peter Poni come on to found the journal Annales scientifuques de lUniversite de
Iassy becoming scientific secretary of the editorial board, and founded the Society for Science
in Iasi, Poni being the president, and Huzurmescu the secretary.
Moved to Bucharest in 1913, Huzurmescu becomes the director of the Electrotechnical Institute
in Bucharest, Professor of applications of heat and electricity from de Faculty of Science and

dean of that faculty. In 1996 created at Bucharest the first station broadcasting from Romania,
and in 1928 was elected chairman of the board of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting.
On May 21, 1916, he is elected a corresponding member of the Romanian
Academy, and in 1932 an honorary member of the French society of Electricians.
In 1937 he pulls back from the active life. He wrote (but not printed) courses of Heat and
Power (iasi 1900) and General and Applied Electricity (Bucharest 1934). In 1906 (to
commemorate 40 years of the reign of King Carol I) he wrote a brief compendium of education
in Romania in the period 1866-1906.
He died in 1954 at 29 may, in Bucharest almost forgotten and disregarded in that infamous
period which was Stalinist era.
That is why in the scientific vocabulary we find universally recognized
words: Karpen cells, the Coanda effect, Teclu light, Procopius phenomenon, and so on, in
recognition of the result of scientific activity of these famous predecessors. The personality that
the electonistics should know and recognize is Dragomir Hurmuzescu, remarkabl physicist,
inventator and teacher, founder of the Academy of Science in Romania. He was born on March
13, 1865 in Bucharest at a time when Al. Cuza was prince of the Romanian state.
In the high schools from Bucharest, Saint Sava and Mihai Bravu, he receives the education and
the high school knowledge. at University Bucharest he lectures the courses of departments of
natural science, and physical mathematics, graduating the, in 1887.
Holds a degree in physics in Sorbonne in 1890. Works and prepares the
doctorate at the Laboratory of physics in Sorbonne. The content of thesis on a determination of
the ration of electrostatic and magnetic units gives feedback, because at that time the topic was
a special interest in international scientific circles. Not forget that it consumed in 1896 just one
year after Marconis first radio transmission.
Returns home and is named lecturer, them professor at the University of
Science at the Department of Gravity, Heat and Electricity(1898). Due to sustained activity,
between 1904 and 1907 is part of the government serving as Secretary general of the Ministry of
Public Instruction. Internationally acclaimed, Dragomir Hurmuzescu, presides in Brussels in
1910 with the Nobel laureate-physicist Marie Curie and Becquerel a section of Congress of
Radiology. Moves to Bucharest and receives important positions at the University: professor,
dean and rector.
The distinguished phycisist is part of the founding members of the Academy
of Science in Romania, and in 1922 became president of radiotelephone broadcasting companies.
The electroscope Hurmuzescu was part of the scientific arsenal Curie and ionization products.
In collaboration with RJ Benoit he showed that X-rays ionized download
bodies and the air is a good conductor of electricity through X-ray ionization. He makes
numerous studies on radioactivity of water and oil in Slanic Moldova.
At Electricity School of the University of Iasi, in 1913 became the Electrotechnical Institute,
supported by his associate ingineer Emil Patrascu build as completely new radio stations in the
country in southeastern Europe.

Enjoying sympathy and appreciation, he is supported to establish an Institute Electrotechnical in


Bucharest where, in 1925 started the first experiments regarding broadcasting and as a corollary,
he even starts public broadcasting. Scarcely in 1928 was inaugurated the station Bucharest.
He published a series of papers that are accepted and appreciated at its best.
Some of these works are published in French such as: mathematical theory of light or
Dielectrina, new insultation, new electroscope-new appliance, but the most numerous are
published in English and printed in Iasi and Bucharest. The development of science and social
progress, future electrical industry in Romania. General and applied electricity.
Dragomir Hurmuzescu was also a great popularizer of science and technical applications being
present with articles in professional journals (radio) or lectures given to student and to the
general public in front of the microphone.

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