Faculty of Engineering and Management in Public Catering and

Agritourism

10 Great Romanian
Inventors

Bucharest
2013

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Introduction
Petrache Poenaru
Henri Coanda
Ioan Cantacuzino
Anastase Dragomir
Stefan Odobleja

Nicolae Paulescu
Ana Aslan
Grigore Antipa
Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen
George Emil Palade
Bibliography

Introduction
Because we are proud of our romanians we
decide to talk in this project about some of the
most important people from Romanian history.
Weve chosen just 10 great romanian inventors
from a long list, people who have contributed to
the development of the whole world.

Petrache Poenaru
Petrache Poenaru was
aRomanianinventor of
theEnlightenmentera.
While a student inParis,
Petrache Poenaru invented the
world's firstfountain pen, an
invention for which
theFrenchGovernment issued a
patent on 25 May 1827.

Petrache Poenaru

Henri Coanda
Henri Marie Coand(7 June 1886
25 November 1972) was
aRomanianinventor,aerodynamic
s pioneer and builder of an
experimental aircraft. He invented
a great number of devices,
designed a "flying saucer" and
discovered theCoand effect of
fluid dynamics.

Henri Coanda

Ioan Cantacuzino
Ioan C. Cantacuzino(Romanian

pronunciation: November 25,

1863 January 14, 1934) In
1901, Cantacuzino was
assigned a teaching position in
Bucharest, where he became a
major influence on a
generation of scientists. His
discoveries were relevant in
the treatment of cholera,
epidemic typhus, tuberculosis,
and scarlet fever. He invented
the notion of contact immunity.

Ioan Cantacuzino

Anastase Dragomir

Anastase Dragomir, born February 6, 1896, inBrila,Romania,

was the sixth child of his family. Issued on April 2, 1930, the
invention was, "a new system of parachuting from the
apparatus for air locomotion, each passenger having his own
parachute that allows, in critical moments, the assembly
detaching from the plane, so the parachute with seated
passenger passes through an opening."

Stefan Odobleja
tefan Odobleja (Romanian
pronunciation: 19021978) was a
Romanian scientist, one of the
precursors of cybernetics. His
major work, Psychologie
consonantiste, first published in
1938 and 1939, in Paris, had
established many of the major
themes of cybernetics regarding
cybernetics and systems thinking
ten years before the ideas of the
famous jewish writer Norbert
Wiener were published in 1948.

Stefan Odobleja

Nicolae Paulescu
Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (Romanian pronunciation: October 30, 1869
July 17, 1931) was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, the
discoverer of pancreatine (later called insulin). The "pancreine" was a crude
extract of bovine pancreas in salted water, after which some impurites were
removed with hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.

Nicolae Paulescu

Ana Aslan
Ana Aslan (Romanian
pronunciation: 1 January 1897
20 May 1988) was a Romanian
biologist and physician who
discovered the anti-aging
effects of procaine, based on
which she developed the drugs
Gerovital H3 and Aslavital.

Ana Aslan

Grigore Antipa
Grigore Antipa (Romanian pronunciation: 27 November 1867, Botoani 9
March 1944 Bucharest) was a Romanian Darwinist biologist who studied the
fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he
was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears
his name.
He is also considered to be the first person to modernize the diorama by
emphasizing the 3d aspect and first to use dioramas in a museum setting.

Grigore Antipa

Grigore Antipa

Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen

Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen
(November 28 /December
10 (N.S.), 1870, Craiova
March 2, 1964, Bucharest)
was a Romanian engineer
and physicist, who worked
in telegraphy and
telephony.

Nicolae Vasilescu Karpen

The Karpen Pile is claimed to be a battery that has provided
continuous energy for over 60 years, making it either a supremely
effective method of storing energy, furthermore some newspapers
describe it as a perpetuum mobile, but most scientists disagree
since such a device would violate the Second law of
Thermodynamics. The device is housed at the Dimitrie Leonida
National Technical Museum, and in 2010 it have been working there
continuously for 60 years.

George Emil Palade

George Emil Palade (Romanian
pronunciation: November 19,
1912 October 8, 2008) was a
Romanian cell biologist. The prize
was granted for his innovations
in electron microscopy and cell
fractionation which together laid
the foundations of modern
molecular cell biology.
The most notable discovery
being the ribosomes of the
endoplasmic reticulum which
he first described in 1955.

George Emil Palade

Bibliography
http://www.patentdesign.ro/inventatori-si-inventii-

celebre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romanian_inve
ntors_and_discoverers
www.medicaacademica.ro
www.patriotii.ro

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