The Babeș-Bolyai University ( ro, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai , hu, Babeș-Bolyai Tudományegyetem, commonly known as UBB) is a

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located in

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

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. UBB has a long academic tradition, started by Universitas Claudiopolitana in 1581. It occupies the first position in the University Metaranking, initiated by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research in 2016"Raport asupra Exercițiului Național de Metaranking Universitar-2016"
/ref>"Metarankingul Universitar-2019 Clasamentul Universităților din România"
/ref> Babeș-Bolyai University is the largest Romanian university with about 50,000 students."Raportul rectorului privind starea Universității Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca (UBB) pe anul 2021"
/ref> It offers study programmes in Romanian, Hungarian, German, English, and French (as well as a smaller number of programmes at the Master's level taught in Spanish, Italian, and Japanese). The university was named, following the fusion in 1959 of the Romanian and Hungarian-language universities in Cluj, after two prominent scientists from

Transylvania Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the A ...

, the Romanian bacteriologist

Victor Babeș Victor Babeș (; 28 July 1854 in Vienna – 19 October 1926 in Bucharest) was a Romanian physician, bacteriologist, academician and professor. One of the founders of modern microbiology, Victor Babeș is author of one of the first treatises of ba ...

and the Hungarian mathematician

János Bolyai János Bolyai (; 15 December 1802 – 27 January 1860) or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consis ...

. It is one of the five members of the ''Universitaria Consortium'' (the group of elite Romanian universities). UBB is affiliated to the

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, Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities
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the Santander Group, the

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and the

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. Likewise, UBB signed the

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and concluded partnerships with 210 universities in 50 countries, and it is widely considered one of the most prestigious in

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. The Babeș-Bolyai University is classified as an ''advanced research and education university'' by the

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History

The history of the education in Kolozsvár, ( ro, Cluj german: Klausenburg, Principality of Transylvania) begins in 1581, with the establishment of the

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college by Stephen Báthory. The college received buildings and land within the medieval city walls, specifically on ''Platea Luporum'' (the present Mihail Kogălniceanu Street). The first rector of the Collegium Academicum Claudiopolitanum was the Polish Jesuit priest Jakub Wujek. The institution had the rights to confer the university/academic titles of ''baccalaureus'', ''magister'', and ''doctor''. In 1585, there were 230 students studying here, divided into six classes. The language of instruction and learning was

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. After 1698, the institution was named Universitas Claudiopolitana (see the cover of the book from 1742 by

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entitled ''Peregrinus Catholicus de peregrina unitaria religione''), with teachings in Latin and later also in German. In 1753, Empress

Maria Theresa Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position '' suo jure'' (in her own right) ...

changed the status of the university into an imperial one, and in 1773, after the dissolution of the Jesuit Order, the university went under the administration of the Piarist order. In 1786 Universitas Claudiopolitana became the Royal Academic Lyceum (Lyceum Regium Academicum – semiuniversity statute), which was later followed by two institutions with a semiuniversity statute (e.g., offering training at of baccalaureus/magister level, but not at doctor level): (a) the Surgical-Medical Institute and (b) the Academy of Law. This institutions will be later incorporated in the Franz Joseph University. With the affirmation of the Romanian nation, in the context of the European revolutions of 1848, was explicitly questioned the issue on university in national language. At the express request of the Romanians, in 1870, József Eötvös, then Minister of Education, proposes the creation in Kolozsvár of a university teaching in Hungarian, Romanian and German, idea also welcomed by the Romanian elite. Meanwhile, Eötvös dies, and in 1872,

Franz Joseph I Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until ...

legislates the establishment of the Hungarian Royal University of Kolozsvár in Hungarian only, which caused dissatisfaction among Romanians. After the oath, on 20 December 1872, 258 students start courses. There were created four distinct faculties: Faculty of Law and State Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and History, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The faculties were equal to each other and enjoyed internal autonomy. The first rector was Professor Áron Berde from the Faculty of Law, specialist in economics and finance. Besides the four faculties is created a Pedagogical Institute, for training secondary school teachers. From 1895 the girls had the right to learn at university. After the

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, and in the context of the Great Union of 1918, the university was taken over by the Romanian authorities and became an institution of

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. On 12 September 1919, the decree signed by King Ferdinand I stipulated "the transformation of Royal Hungarian Franz Joseph University in Romanian university beginning 1 October 1919". The Hungarian staff who have not sworn allegiance to the Romanian state moved to Szeged where it contributed to the formation of the University of Szeged (1921). The new Romanian university, initially named ''Superior Dacia University'', later ''King Ferdinand I University'', was composed of four faculties: Law, Medicine, Sciences, Letters and Philosophy. The inaugural lecture, "The Duty of Our Life", was delivered by Vasile Pârvan on 3 November 1919. The official inauguration took place between 31 January and 2 February 1920, in the presence of King Ferdinand I. The first elected rector was

Sextil Pușcariu Sextil Iosif Pușcariu (4 January 1877 – 5 May 1948) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist, also known for his involvement in administrative and party politics. A native of Brașov educated in France and Germany, he wa ...

. In 1940, after territorial revision imposed by the Second Vienna Award, the university was moved to

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and

Sibiu Sibiu ( , , german: link=no, Hermannstadt , la, Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Härmeschtat'', hu, Nagyszeben ) is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania. Located some north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Ci ...

, and the former Hungarian university was recreated in the city, returning from the Hungarian University of Szeged. After the end of the

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and the repeal of the Vienna Award, on 1 June 1945, Romanian authorities moved back in Cluj the Romanian ''King Ferdinand I University'' (later renamed to ''Victor Babeș University''), and established ''Bolyai University'', a state university teaching in Hungarian, with four faculties (Letters and Philosophy, Law and Political Economy, Sciences, and Human Medicine which, in 1948, was separated and moved to Târgu Mureș to form the University of Medicine and Pharmacy). In the spring of 1959, the two educational institutions were united under the name ''Babeș-Bolyai University'', after two renowned scholars: Romanian biologist

and Hungarian mathematician

. In 1995, the Babeș-Bolyai University reorganises its structure, introducing a multicultural based education. UBB is today a complex university, having programs from art/humanities, social sciences, life and natural sciences, mathematics/computer sciences to engineering and technology."Admission at Babeș-Bolyai University
/ref> UBB Academic tradition

Claudiopolitan Academy founding document

Campuses

The main campus is located in the city of Cluj-Napoca, with the university buildings spread across the city. The university has 17 student housing areas, totaling 5,280 places to stay (4,964 for students, 100 for athletes and 216 for PhD); most notable are ''Hașdeu'' and ''Economica''. All dormitories are renovated, thermally insulated, have double-glazed windows, laminate flooring and chipboard or wood furniture. The Lucian Blaga University Library is located in the city centre. The university also has several colleges located in other cities spread across

and

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. Within the university's cultural heritage are the University Museum (established in April 2001, with a collection of more than 750 original and facsimile pieces), the Mineralogical Museum, the Botanical Museum, the Paleontology-Stratigraphy Museum, the

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and the Zoological Museum.

Academics

Babeș-Bolyai University has almost 50.000 students in 2021. Between 1993 and 2021, the number of students has quadrupled, from 12,247 in 1993 to 48,620 in 2021. The structure of the student body is composed out of 2,239 PhD students, 9,543 master's degree students, and 33,139 undergraduates. The university has 22 faculties and an academic community of over 55.000 members. It offers bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees, along with advanced postgraduate studies. UBB is the only university in

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that has four faculties of

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(Orthodox, Reformed, Roman Catholic, and Greek Catholic). The university is a multicultural institution which is very well illustrated by its structure: there are 291 study programmes in Romanian (148 bachelor's studies and 143 master's studies); 110 study programmes in Hungarian (70 bachelor's studies and 40 master's studies); and 15 study programmes in German (10 bachelor's studies and 5 master's studies)."Raportul Rectorului privind starea Universitatii Babes-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca în anul 2019"
The Hungarian and German minorities are proportionately represented in the Professors' Council and the University Senate. 41.5% of foreign students come from

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and

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, 27.4% from EU and EEA, and 31.1% from non-EU and non-EEA states.

Faculties

File:Kolozsvar BBTE Pszichologia Kar.JPG, The Faculty of Psychology File:Kolozsvar Marianum Babes Bolyai University.jpg, The Faculty of Letters File:Kvár Egyetem Kémia.jpg, The Faculty of Chemistry File:Kolozsvar BBTE Jogtudomanyi Kar.JPG, The Faculty of Law

Ranking

UBB typically occupies the first position among the Romanian universities in the major international ranking of universities. In 2016, the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research commissioned the University Metaranking, combining the major international rankings of universities, as recognized by IREG). Since 2016, UBB occupies the first position among Romanian universities in the same Metaranking, although the classication process is now undertaken by the independent organization."Metarankingul Universitar-2020"
/ref>"Metarankingul Universitar-2021"
/ref> In February 2022, the Ministry of Education issued a new methodology and metaranking, where UBB also occupied the first place."Raport anual privind Metarankingul Național aferent anului 2021"
/ref> In 2019, based on British QS STAR academic audit, UBB was evaluated as an international university with excellence in teaching and research. In 2021, another QS audit granted the university a five-star rating, which is indicative of a world-class university, with an internationally recognized reputation across multiple academic fields.

Hungarian section

In 1995, the Babeș-Bolyai University introduced an educational system backed by the

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and based on multiculturalism and multilingualism, with three lines of study (Romanian, Hungarian and German) at all levels of academic degrees. The Hungarian section enrolls 4,874 students in 115 study programmes (75 bachelor's level and 40 master's level); the university is thus the principal institution that educates members of the Hungarian minority in Transylvania.

Hungarian-Romanian dispute

The Hungarian section of the university has a partial autonomy, gradually increasing in the recent years. However, in the opinion of the Council of the Hungarian section, those members appointed by the Hungarian-speaking teaching staff desire a more institutionalized form of autonomy. Since university decision-making is based on majority vote of the entire faculty, the Hungarian representatives in minority can always be silenced by this procedure. In November 2006, Hantz Péter and Kovács Lehel, lecturers at the Babeș-Bolyai University, were discharged by the university after a series of actions started in October 2005 taken for language equality. They were campaigning for the re-organization of the Bolyai University by splitting it in two independent institutions. On 22 November 2006, the university organized an exhibition in the

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, where they tried to give the impression that there are multilingual signs at the university. That day, Hantz added signs like "Information" and "No smoking" in Hungarian alongside those ones in Romanian. The two acted upon a decree permitting the use of multilingual signs, which had been decreed by the university but never put in practice, and official claims that the university is a multicultural institution with three working languages (Romanian, German and Hungarian). On 27 November 2006, the Senate voted for exclusion of the two lecturers, with 72 for and 9 against (from 2 Romanian and 7 Hungarian members) votes. The Hungarian academic community is convinced that the exclusion was not a disciplinary action, but the vote was not ethnic based. In spite of protests, the resignation out of solidarity by several Hungarian-speaking university staff, and a call by 24 Hungarian MEPs for the reinstatement of the lecturers, they remained unemployed. The parties in the

Hungarian Parliament The National Assembly ( hu, Országgyűlés, lit=Country Assembly) is the parliament of Hungary. The unicameral body consists of 199 (386 between 1990 and 2014) members elected to 4-year terms. Election of members is done using a semi-propo ...

asked the university to reinstate the two professors and respect the rights of the Hungarian minority. The presidents of the five parties represented in the Hungarian Parliament signed a statement of protest. Istvan Hiller, the Education Minister of Hungary, wrote to his Romanian counterpart Mihail Hărdău, asking for his help on the issue. The case has also been put forward in the

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, from the Swedish European People's Party, along with 24 signatories from 19 European countries, presented a motion for a resolution on the alleged breaching of the 1994

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by the

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. The two lecturers sued Romania at the

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(ECHR) in Strasbourg. Hantz and Kovacs turned to former Hungarian Justice Minister Albert Takács to represent them at the ECHR, eventually accepting the proposal. In 2008, the European Court of Human Rights established that the decision of UBB Senate to exclude Hantz Péter and Kovács Lehel from the teaching staff of the educational institution was legal. In 2010, the education law has sparked numerous controversies by promoting ethnic segregation in higher education, according to teachers representatives. Anton Hadăr, president of ''Alma Mater'' Federation of Trade Unions in University Education considers that the separation of UBB on ethnic criteria would be not only risky but also unproductive. Among main disadvantages would be the increasingly serious gaps of ethnic Hungarians regarding the knowledge of

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. Romanian MEP Corina Crețu warned that adopting the education law, with the claims of

UDMR The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (DAHR; hu, Romániai Magyar Demokrata Szövetség, RMDSZ; ro, Uniunea Democrată Maghiară din România, UDMR) is a political party in Romania which aims to represent the significant Hungarian m ...

, would have harmful effects especially in Cluj. "Applying the law could lead to breaking UBB", stated Crețu.

Notable people

Faculty and alumni

Emil Racoviță Emil Gheorghe Racoviță (; 15 November 1868 – 19 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Rom ...

(1868–1947), savant, explorer, speleologist and biologist *

Iuliu Hațieganu Iuliu Hațieganu (April 14, 1885 – September 4, 1959) was a Romanian internist doctor particularly recognized for research done in the field of tuberculosis. He founded in Cluj a valuable school of internal medicine. Today, Cluj University of ...

(1885–1959), physician * Lucian Blaga (1895–1961), philosopher, poet, playwright, translator, journalist, professor, academician and diplomat *

Traian Herseni Traian Herseni (February 18, 1907 – July 17, 1980) was a Romanian social scientist, journalist, and political figure. First noted as a favorite disciple of Dimitrie Gusti, he helped establish the Romanian school of rural sociology in the 1920s a ...

(1907–1980), sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist * Virgil I. Bărbat (1879–1931), sociologist * Adeyemi Ikuforiji (b. 1958), economist and politician * Ákos Birtalan (b. 1962), Minister of Tourism *

Ana Blandiana Ana Blandiana (; pen name of Otilia Valeria Coman; born 25 March 1942, in Timișoara) is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She is considered one of the famous contemporary Romanian authors. She took her name after Blandiana, nea ...

(b. 1942), writer and civil rights activist * Anatol E. Baconsky (1925–1977), essayist, poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist and translator *

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(b. 1975), President of the

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* Anneli Ute Gabanyi (b. 1942), political scientist, literary critic, journalist and philologist * Áron Tamási (1897–1966), writer * Camil Mureșanu (1927–2015), historian *

Corneliu Coposu Corneliu (Cornel) Coposu () (20 May 1914 – 11 November 1995) was a Christian Democratic and liberal conservative Romanian politician, the founder of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party ( ro, Partidul Național Țărănesc Creșt ...

(1914–1995), founder of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party * Daniel Barbu (b. 1957), historian, senator and Minister of Culture * Daniel David (b. 1972), psychologist and Rector of the UBB * Daniel Morar (b. 1966), Head of the National Anticorruption Directorate and Romania's Constitutional Court Judge * Dumitru Radu Popescu (b. 1935), writer, playwright, scenarist and academician * Eduard Hellvig (b. 1974), MEP, Minister of Tourism and Director of the Romanian Intelligence Service *

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(b. 1966),

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and Mayor of Cluj-Napoca * Emil Hurezeanu (b. 1955), writer, publicist and journalist * Florin Șerban (b. 1975), film director * Franz Halberg (1919–2013), scientist and one of the founders of modern

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* Gabriela Szabó (b. 1975), Olympic athlete and Minister of Youth and Sport * Gavril Dejeu (b. 1932), lawyer and Interior Minister *

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(1866–1918), poet, literary critic and translator *

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(b. 1967), Director of the

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(b. 1971), basketball player * György Frunda (b. 1951), politician * Hermann Oberth (1894–1989), one of the founding fathers of rocket and astronautics *

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(b. 1967), Minister of Culture *

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(1961–2016), musician and actor * Ioan Oltean (b. 1953), Minister of Environment *

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(1922–1977), writer and political prisoner * Ion Rațiu (1917–2000), politician * Ionel Haiduc (b. 1937), chemist, professor and academician *

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(1873–1953), Prime Minister of Romania * Klaus Iohannis (b. 1959), Mayor of Sibiu and

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* Laura Codruța Kövesi (b. 1973), Chief Prosecutor of the National Anticorruption Directorate * Mircea Miclea (b. 1963), Minister of Education *

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(b. 1959), writer, historian and publicist *

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(b. 1975), actor, comic and TV star *

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(b. 1956), senator and presidential adviser * Sándor Kányádi (b. 1929), poet *

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(b. 1990), Olympic gymnast * Ștefan Augustin Doinaș (1922–2002), poet, essayist, translator, political prisoner, academician and politician * Simona Hunyadi Murph, scientist, engineer, inventor, adjunct professor *

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(b. 1961), politician and sociologist * Vasile Pușcaș (b. 1952), professor, diplomat and politician *

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(b. 1954), Mayor of Bucharest and Prime Minister of Romania * Victor Neumann (b. 1953), historian, philosopher of culture and professor

Honorary degree

Doctor Honoris Causa An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad ho ...

, Professor Honoris Causa include a long list of public personalities, such as: *

Angela Merkel Angela Dorothea Merkel (; ; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Opp ...

Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the soverei ...

* Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople * King

Michael I of Romania Michael I ( ro, Mihai I ; 25 October 1921 – 5 December 2017) was the last King of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947. Shortly after Michael's ...

Mario Vargas Llosa Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...

Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail ( ar, أحمد حسن زويل, ; February 26, 1946 – August 2, 2016) was an Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistr ...

* Jean-Marie Lehn * George Andrew Olah * George Emil Palade

Rectors

(1919–1920) * Vasile Dumitriu (1920–1921) * Dimitrie Călugăreanu (1921–1922) *

Iacob Iacobovici Iacob Melcon Iacobovici (November 18, 1879 – October 9, 1959) was a Romanian surgeon. Biography Origins and early career Born in Costești, Botoșani County, his family were peasants of Armenian origin who had arrived in the Moldavia reg ...

(1922–1923) * Nicolae Bănescu (1923–1924) * Camil Negrea (1924–1925) *

Gheorghe Spacu Gheorghe Spacu (December 5, 1883 – July 23, 1955) was a Romanian inorganic chemist. Born in Iași, he attended the city's National College from 1894 to 1901. He subsequently enrolled in the physics and chemistry section of the sciences faculty a ...

(1925–1926) * Ioan Minea (1926–1927) *

Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică (born Gheorghe Bogdan; –September 21, 1934) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian literary critic. The son of a poor merchant family from Brașov, he attended several universities before launching a career as a critic, f ...

(1927–1928) * Emil Hațieganu (1928–1929) *

(1929–1930) *

(1930–1931) * Nicolae Drăganu (1931–1932) * Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă (1932–1940) *

(1940–1941) *

(1941–1944) * Alexandru Borza (1944–1945) *

Emil Petrovici Emil Petrovici (; 1899–1968) was a Romanian linguist, dialectologist and Slavist. He studied both Romanian and Serbian languages. His studies included Romanian phonology, and Romanian, Serbian, and other Slavic dialectology. Petrovici, of Ser ...

(1945–1951) *

Raluca Ripan Raluca Ripan (27 June 1894 – 5 December 1972) was a Romanian chemist, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. She wrote many treatises, especially in the field of analytical chemistry. Biography She was born in Iași, in the Moldavia reg ...

(1951–1956) * Constantin Daicoviciu (1956–1968) * Ștefan Pascu (1968–1976) * Ion Vlad (1976–1984) * Aurel Negucioiu (1984–1989) * Ionel Haiduc (1990–1993) * Andrei Marga (1993–2004) * Nicolae Bocșan (2004–2008) * Andrei Marga (2008–2012) * Ioan-Aurel Pop (2012–2020) * Daniel David (2020–present)

References

External links

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Lucian Blaga Central University Library

''Geographia Technica'' Journal of the Faculty of Geography
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