Liviu Constantinescu

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Liviu Constantinescu

Liviu Tiberiu Constantinescu ('* November 26, 1914 in Wallachisch-Eibesdorf , Sibiu County , Austria-Hungary , † November 29, 1997 in Saint-Louis , Haut-Rhin , France ) was a Romanian geophysicist.

Constantinescu came from a family of Orthodox clergy and studied natural sciences (especially physics and chemistry) at the University of Bucharest with a diploma in 1935 and a doctorate in physics in 1941 (dissertation Potențiale distruptive în vapori de hidrocarbur ) with Eugen Bădărău. For some time he was a lecturer at the university (and also a French teacher at various high schools), was a soldier on the Eastern Front from 1941 (where he escaped the encirclement in the Donbogen) and from 1943 to 1958 first director of the newly founded geophysical observatory, which was later named after him Surlari at Moara Vlăsiei. From 1949 to 1975 he was also professor of geophysics at the university and from 1957 to 1973 at the Institute for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Geology (IPGG) in Bucharest (and previously at the Mining Institute). Because he refused to join the Communist Party, he was forcibly retired in 1975. After the fall of the communist dictatorship, he was President of the Geosciences Section of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and finally retired in 1995.

Together with Sabba S. Ștefănescu, he is considered to be the founder of geophysics in Romania. He dealt in particular with geomagnetism (e.g. magnetotellurics ), seismics (especially earthquakes in Romania and the Carpathians, Balkan region) and the earth's gravity field (gravimetry). He worked both theoretically and applied, for example for the prospecting of mineral resources. He wrote two textbooks, one on geomagnetism and one on gravimetry in prospection, published in 1959 and 1961, respectively, and was editor of a two-volume manual on geophysical prospection in 1964/65 .

In 1963 he became a corresponding and in 1990 full member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences . He was Vice President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) from 1969 to 1971 and Vice President of the European Seismological Commission from 1972 to 1976.

He married in 1939 and had a son, the physicist Dan Horia Constantinescu (* 1940), who was married to the biophysicist Ruxandra Sireteanu-Constantinescu from 1974 until her death in 2008 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MEMBRII ACADEMIEI ROMÂNE din 1866 până în prezent , accessed on August 9, 2018 (Romanian)
  2. ↑ About DHC , accessed on August 9, 2018

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SURNAME Constantinescu, Liviu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Constantinescu, Liviu Tiberiu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallachian-Eibesdorf , Sibiu County , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1997
Place of death Saint-Louis , Haut-Rhin department , France