Faculty of Engineering and Management in Public Catering and Agritourism
Bucharest 2013
 
Because e are /roud of our romanians e decide to tal in this /ro)ect about some of the most im/ortant /eo/le from 4omanian history. 5e67e chosen )ust 10 great romanian in7entors from a long list8 /eo/le ho ha7e contributed to the de7elo/ment of the hole orld.
ntroduction
Petrache Poenaru as a 4omanian in7entor of the Enlightenment era.
5hile a student in Paris8 Petrache Poenaru in7ented the orld:s ;rst fountain /en8 an
in7ention for hich the French o7ernment issued a
/atent on 2$ May 1,2*.
 
!enri Marie Coand<=* >une 1,,& ? 2$ +o7ember 1-*2@ as
a 4omanian in7entor8 aerodynamic s /ioneer and builder of an
e/erimental aircraft. !e in7ented a great number of de7ices8
designed a ying saucer and disco7ered the Coand< eDect of
uid dynamics.
!enri Coanda
 
oan C. Cantacu#ino =4omanian /ronunciation +o7ember 2$8 1,&3 ? >anuary 1"8 1-3"@ n
1-018 Cantacu#ino as assigned a teaching /osition in Bucharest8 here he became a
ma)or inuence on a generation of scientists. !is disco7eries ere rele7ant in
the treatment of cholera8 e/idemic ty/hus8 tuberculosis8 and scarlet fe7er. !e in7ented the notion of contact immunity.
oan Cantacu#ino
Anastase %ragomir
Anastase %ragomir8 born February &8 1,-&8 in Br<ila8 4omania8 as the sith child of his family. ssued on A/ril 28 1-308 the
in7ention as8 a ne system of /arachuting from the a//aratus for air locomotion8 each /assenger ha7ing his on
/arachute that allos8 in critical moments8 the assembly detaching from the /lane8 so the /arachute ith seated
/assenger /asses through an o/ening.
 
4omanian scientist8 one of the /recursors of cybernetics. !is
ma)or or8 Psychologie consonantiste8 ;rst /ublished in
1-3, and 1-3-8 in Paris8 had established many of the ma)or
themes of cybernetics regarding cybernetics and systems thining ten years before the ideas of the
famous )eish riter +orbert 5iener ere /ublished in 1-",.
'tefan (doble)a
 
Nicolae Constantin Paulescu (Romanian pronunciation: October 30, 186!  "ul# 1$, 131% &as a Romanian p'#sioloist, pro)essor o) me*icine, t'e *iscoverer o) pancreatine (later calle* insulin%+ 'e -pancreine- &as a cru*e e.tract o) bovine pancreas in salte* &ater, a)ter &'ic' some impurites &ere remove* &it' '#*roc'loric aci* an* so*ium '#*ro.i*e+
+icolae Paulescu
 
Ana Aslan =4omanian /ronunciation 1 >anuary 1,-* ? 20 May 1-,,@ as a 4omanian
biologist and /hysician ho disco7ered the antiGaging
eDects of /rocaine8 based on hich she de7elo/ed the drugs ero7ital !3 and Asla7ital.
Ana Aslan
 
rigore Anti/a =4omanian /ronunciation 2* +o7ember 1,&*8 BotoHani ? - March 1-"" Bucharest@ as a 4omanian %arinist biologist ho studied the fauna of the %anube %elta and the Blac 'ea. Beteen 1,-2 and 1-"" he as the director of the Bucharest +atural !istory Museum8 hich no bears his name.
!e is also considered to be the ;rst /erson to moderni#e the diorama by em/hasi#ing the 3d as/ect and ;rst to use dioramas in a museum setting.
rigore Anti/a
 
+icolae asilescuGar/en =+o7ember 2, I%ecember 10 =+.'.@8 1,*08 Craio7a ? March 28 1-&"8 Bucharest@ as a 4omanian engineer and /hysicist8 ho ored
in telegra/hy and tele/hony.
 
 
eorge Emil Palade =4omanian /ronunciation +o7ember 1-8
1-12 ? (ctober ,8 200,@ as a 4omanian cell biologist. Jhe /ri#e as granted for his inno7ations in electron microsco/y and cell
fractionation hich together laid the foundations of modern
molecular cell biology.
endo/lasmic reticulum ? hich he ;rst described in 1-$$.
eorge Emil Palade
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