DESCRIPTION:
The Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the “Babes-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the heir and continuator of the Department of Chemistry and Physics, a part of the Science Faculty of the “University of the Upper Dacia” (Universitatea Daciei Superioare), founded in 1918, when, after the First World War, Transylvania regained its normal status as an integrate part of Romania.
The history of our Faculty, spanning now more than eight decades, is one of dedicated service in both teaching and research, resulting in remarkable academic achievements. Integrated with all its forces and capacities in the general efforts of Romania to reach the standards of the European Community, our faculty not only looks forward to the new perspectives opened by the course of democracy and academic freedom, but also remembers the generations of specialists that have graduated here and have faithfully and successfully served the science and the country.
From its beginnings, our Faculty had the privilege of listing in its ranks such internationally acknowledged authorities like Adrian OSTROGOVICH, Dan RADULESCU, Gheorghe SPACU and Ion TANASESCU. They opened new research pathways which became traditional for the chemistry school in Cluj-Napoca, together with Raluca RIPAN and Constantin MACAROVICI, members of the Romanian Academy, coming from Jassy to join their colleagues in order to contribute to the consolidation of the newly founded University.
A second and a third generation of professors, including Candin LITEANU, Ioan CADARIU, Alexandru SILBERG, Maria IONESCU, Valer FARCASAN, Emil CHIFU, and Liviu ONICIU continued and developed the creative work of their predecessors.
Now we are proud to have again in our staff two members of the Romanian Academy: Professor Ionel HAIDUC and Professor Ioan A. SILBERG.
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Currently, the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering is made up of the following chairs: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Technological Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biochemical Engineering. All of them have well-established lines of research, striving, at the same time, for assimilating new trends in the respective scientific disciplines.
(cited: May 23, 2007)
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