Dorel Zugrăvescu

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Dorel Zugrăvescu (25 November 1930 – 20 November 2019) was a Romanian geophysicist who was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1991,[1] and was an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.[2] He was born in Râmnicu Vâlcea, and died in Constanța, aged 88.

Study[]

He graduated from the Bucharest Mining Institute (Institutul de Mine București), Faculty of Geophysics (1948-1954). He became a doctor in sciences, with a geophysics specialty, at the University of Bucharest, with the thesis Contributions to the geodynamic study of the Romanian territory (Contribuții la studiul geodinamic al teritoriului României), in 1985, and got a doctor in sciences, in the alternative medicine specialization, in 1987.

Professional activity[]

He started by being a scientific researcher at Institutul de Fizică (1955-1965), then principal scientific researcher at Centrul de Cercetări Geofizice al Academiei Române (1965-1968), head of laboratory at the Geodynamics Laboratory, from Centrul de Cercetări Geofizice al Academiei Române (1968-1970), at the Astronomical Observatory in Bucharest (1970-1977), at Centrul de Fizica Pământului (1977-1990), Principal Investigator I; director at Institutul de Geodinamică [Sabba S. Ștefănescu[ al Academiei Române (since 1990).

Since 1977 he had been working as an associate professor in the Department of Geophysics at the University of Bucharest, and since 1990 he had been a PhD supervisor in the Physics branch, specializing in Global Physics.

References[]

  1. ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
  2. ^ http://www.asm.md/index.php?go=membrii&n=3&new_language=0&page=6 Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei List of members, 2007. Accessed 20 July 2014


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