Constantin Cândea (; December 15, 1887 – March 4, 1971) was a

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n chemist, professor of Chemistry, Ph.D., engineer, and later Rector at the

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(formerly the Polytechnic School of Timișoara) between 1946 and 1947. Coleta de Sabata, Ioan Munteanu - Remember: Professors of Polytechnic School of Timișoara, Timișoara: Helicon Publishing House, 1993, , p. 4

Life

Born in Mărgineni,

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, Cândea graduated from Prince Ferdinand High School in

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in 1907, and in 1911 from Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule München, now

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. He was married to Maria Cândea, née Antoniade, a teacher of French with higher education in France, who was

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of the Queen Marie High School of Pedagogy for Girls (now Queen Marie National College of Pedagogy) in

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. In the first year of activity of the Polytechnic School of Timișoara initiated by the Royal Decree No. 4822 of November 11, 1920 of

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Ferdinand I, Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Cândea created the Chemistry Laboratory and Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Stăncescu initiated the Physics Laboratory. Cândea was a

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of the

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since December 21, 1935 and a full member since December 20, 1936. He was Rector of the

(formerly Polytechnic School of Timișoara) between 1946 and 1947. In 1967 he was awarded the , 3rd class. He died at the age of 83 and was buried in the

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, figure 4, in Bucharest.

Work

Cândea published numerous works, including:
''Separation of copper group metals''

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, vol.96, no.7, , pp. 276–276, 1934
''Separation of the acidic sulfides of the other compounds of the sulphide precipitation''
Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry, vol.97, no.3, , pp. 118–118, 1934
''Separation of the acidic sulfides of the other compounds of the sulphide precipitation''
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.97, no.3-4, pp. 118–118, 1934
''Lead''
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.110, no.5, pp. 206–208, 1937
''Qualitative analysis''
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.108, no.9, pp. 340–345, 1939
''Fuels and petroleum based fuels''
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.118, no.5, pp. 208–222, 1939 *''Methane in connection with national defense'', Elvira Botez
Academy of Sciences of Romania. Its history
Romanian Academy, Noema. Vol. VI, 2007, p. 89 Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Romania No. 10, 1942
''Condensation of oxibenzaldehyde and nitrobenzaldehyde with 2.7 dinitrofluorura''

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry The ''European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry'' is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering inorganic chemistry, inorganic, Organometallic chemistry, organometallic, Bioinorganic chemistry, bioinorganic, and solid-state chemistry. It is p ...

, vol.75, no.12, , pp. 2017–2018, 1942
''Organic nitrogen compounds''
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.125, no.1, pp. 48–57, 1943
''The reaction of methane with zinc chloride''

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, vol.56, no. 35–36, , pp. 247–248, 1943

References

External links

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Timișoara during Soviet military occupation
Timișoara City Hall Monitor * Mircea Rusnac
Student protest movements of Timișoara before 1956
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caândea, Constantin 1887 births 1971 deaths People from Bacău County Romanian chemists 20th-century chemists Technical University of Munich alumni Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Timișoara Rectors of Politehnica University of Timișoara Members of the Romanian Academy of Sciences Burials at Bellu Cemetery