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Dan Giușcă

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Dan Giușcă
Born(1904-07-14)14 July 1904
Died10 August 1988(1988-08-10) (aged 84)
NationalityRomanian
CitizenshipRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest, University of Cluj, ETH Zurich
Scientific career
Fieldsgeology, petrology
InstitutionsCluj-Napoca, Bucharest
Thesis (1927)

Dan Giușcă (14 July 1904 – 10 August 1988) was a Romanian geologist and a member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

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In 1927, Giușcă received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Cluj, having his theses on the morphotropic effect of closing of spiranic cycles.[1] After finishing his degree, he was hired by Ludovic Mrazec at the Geologic Institute and at the University of Bucharest's Department of Mineralogy.[1] In 1929, Giușcă obtained a scholarship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, after which he worked in Germany at the laboratories of Paul Niggli and Wilhelm Eitel.[1]

After returning to Romania in 1931, he taught at the University of Bucharest and conducted research at the Geologic Institute. At the age of 33, he became a lecturer (conferențiar) and at the age of 44, he became a professor.[1] Dan Giușcă was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1963[2] and a titular member in 1974.[3] Throughout his career he published over 130 scientific articles and books.[4]

Work

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After returning to Bucharest, Giușcă began studying at the Institute of Geology magmatic and metamorphic rocks.[1] He studied the chemical structure of Nagyágite,[1] contact metamorphism at Băița Bihorului and discovered a new of deposit zeolites.[2] In the Hinghiș Mountains, he studied granitic rocks, while in the Vlădeasa Massif he studied volcanic phenomena and the associated hydrothermal metamorphism.[2] Giușcă studied the granitic rocks of the Pricopan Ridge in Northern Dobruja, arguing for a magmatic origin of the epidote.[2]

During the 1950s, Giușcă began studying a new field: neogene volcanism and old metamorphism in the Carpathians. His studies included the neogene vulcanites of the Gutâi Mountains.[2] He continued studying mesozoic magmatism through the study of banatites and ophiolites in the Apuseni Mountains.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Rădulescu, p.3
  2. ^ a b c d e f Rădulescu, p.4
  3. ^ Rădulescu, p.5
  4. ^ "Centenar Dan Giușcă". Romanian Academy. June 10, 2004. Retrieved April 13, 2013.

References

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