Petru Bogdan
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Petru Bogdan | |
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Born | |
Died | March 28, 1944 | (aged 71)
Nationality | Romanian |
Alma mater | University of Iași University of Berlin |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Chemistry |
Institutions | University of Iași Romanian Academy |
Doctoral students | Theodor V. Ionescu |
Petru Bogdan (29 January 1873 – 28 March 1944) was a Romanian chemist, educator, and politician. In 1926, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.[1]
He was born in Cozmești, Iași County, the son of Vasile Bogdan (the mayor of the village) and Ana, née Timuș; his father died four years laters, during the Romanian War of Independence of 1877.
Bogdan was a professor at the University of Iași.[2] He wrote the first treatise on physical chemistry in the Romanian language. In 1923, one of his students, Theodor V. Ionescu, who worked in plasma physics, was the first to defend a PhD thesis in physics at the University of Iași.
Bogdan was a member of the National Peasants' Party. He served as Mayor of Iași from January 1930 to March 1934.
He had 7 children, Margareta, Gheorghe, Maria, Elena, Ana, Ioan Petru Culianu.[3]
, and Ioan; one of his grandsons wasPublications[]
Studiul Chimiei Fisicale (4 volumes)
- ITeoria cinetică,
- IITermodinamica,
- IIIElectrochimia,
- IVStructura atomului. Radioactivitatea.
References[]
- ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
- ^ Livezeanu, Irina (2000). Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building & Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930. Cornell University Press. p. 104. ISBN 9780801486883.
- ^ Tereza Culianu-Petrescu (12 June 2010). "Casa Bogdan-Culianu". Ziarul de Iași (in Romanian). Retrieved 30 March 2021.
External links[]
- Romanian chemists
- Rectors of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Titular members of the Romanian Academy
- Mayors of Iași
- 1873 births
- 1944 deaths
- People from Iași County
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
- Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
- National Peasants' Party politicians