Dorel Zugrăvescu (25 November 1930 – 20 November 2019) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

geophysicist Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' som ...

who was elected a corresponding member of the

Romanian Academy The Romanian Academy ( ro, Academia Română ) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 active members who are elected for life. According to its byl ...

in 1991, and was an honorary member of the

Academy of Sciences of Moldova The Academy of Sciences of Moldova ( ro, Academia de Științe a Moldovei), established in 1961, is the main scientific organization of Moldova and coordinates research in all areas of science and technology. Ion Tighineanu has been the head of t ...

.Academia de Științe a Moldovei List of members, 2007
Accessed 20 July 2014 He was born in

Râmnicu Vâlcea Râmnicu Vâlcea (also spelled ''Rîmnicu Vîlcea'' or, in the past, ''Rîmnic-Vâlcea'', ) (population: 92,573 as per the 2011 Romanian census) is the county capital ( ro, Reședință de județ) and also the largest town of Vâlcea County, cent ...

, and died in

Constanța Constanța (, ; ; rup, Custantsa; bg, Кюстенджа, Kyustendzha, or bg, Констанца, Konstantsa, label=none; el, Κωνστάντζα, Kōnstántza, or el, Κωνστάντια, Kōnstántia, label=none; tr, Köstence), histo ...

, aged 88.

Studies

He graduated from the Bucharest Mining Institute (''Institutul de Mine București''), Faculty of Geophysics (1948-1954). He became a doctor in sciences, with a geophysics specialty, at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

, with the thesis "Contributions to the geodynamic study of the Romanian territory" (''Contribuții la studiul geodinamic al teritoriului României''), in 1985, and got a doctor in sciences, in the alternative medicine specialization, in 1987.

Professional activity

Zugrăvescu started by being a scientific researcher at ''Institutul de Fizică'' (1955–1965), then principal scientific researcher at ''Centrul de Cercetări Geofizice al Academiei Române'' (1965–1968), head of laboratory at the Geodynamics Laboratory, from ''Centrul de Cercetări Geofizice al Academiei Române'' (1968–1970), at the

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în

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

(1970–1977), at ''Centrul de Fizica Pământului'' (1977–1990), Principal Investigator I; director at ''Institutul de Geodinamică abba S. Ștefănescual Academiei Române'' (since 1990). Since 1977 he had been working as an associate professor in the Department of Geophysics at the University of Bucharest, and since 1990 he had been a Ph.D. supervisor in the Physics branch, specializing in Global Physics.

References

1930 births 2019 deaths People from Râmnicu Vâlcea Romanian geophysicists Corresponding members of the Romanian Academy Honorary members of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova Members of the Technical Sciences Academy of Romania Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni University of Bucharest alumni Academic staff of the University of Bucharest {{Romania-scientist-stub