This document summarizes information about several famous Romanians, including biologist Emil Racovița, footballer Gheorghe Hagi, sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, religious scholar Mircea Eliade, inventor Henri Coanda, gymnast Nadia Comaneci, pan flute player Georghe Zamfir, chemist Nicolae Teclu, cell biologist George Emil Palade, and playwright Eugen Ionescu. It provides brief biographies highlighting their contributions and achievements in their respective fields.

1. Famous people of my
country
Romanian Team
Dichiseni School
Comenius Project
”FIVE SENSES”

2. EmilRacovița

3. Emil Racoviță
• Emil Racoviță was
a Romanian biologist, zoologist,
speleologist, explorer of Antarctic
a and the first biologist in the
world to study the arctic life.
• Together with Grigore Antipa, he
was one of the most noted
promoters of natural sciences in
Romania.
• Racoviță was the first Romanian
to have gone on a scientific
research expedition to
the Antarctic, more than 100
years ago, as well as an
influential professor, scholar and
researcher.

4. Gheorghe Hagi

5. Gheorghe Hagi is
a Romanian former footballer,
considered the best attacking
midfielder in Europe during
the 1980s and 1990s and the
greatest Romanian footballer
of all time.
Galatasaray fans called
him 'Comandante' (The
Commander) and Romanians
called him 'Regele' (The
King).

6. Pictures

7. Hagi was and still is the power
of Romanian football!

8. Constantin Brâncuși

10. Romanian Sculptor
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter and
photographer who made his career in France. Considered a pioneer
offmodernism, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th-
century, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a
child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools.

11. Famous monuments
from Romania
Column of the Infinite Gate of the Kiss

12. Table of Silence

13. Wisdom
• (Romanian) "Am șlefuit materia pentru
a afla linia continuă. Și când am
constatat că n-o pot afla, m-am oprit;
parcă cineva nevăzut mi-a dat peste
mâini."
• (English) ”I ground matter to find the
continuous line. And when I realized I could
not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen
someone had slapped my hands.“
• (Romanian) "Muncește ca un sclav,
poruncește ca un rege, creează ca un
zeu.“
• (English)"Work like a slave; command like a
king; create like a god."

14. Mircea Eliade
• Mircea Eliade ( 1907 -
1986), historian of religions,
phenomenologist of religion, and
author of novels, novellas, and
short stories.
• His Ph.D. thesis was titled,
Yoga: Essai sur les origines de
la mystique Indienne (Yoga: An
Essay on the origins of Indian
mysticism), and this was the first
ever exhaustive study on yoga
to have been published by a
westerner.

15. • Eliade was one
of the most
influential
scholars of
religion of the
20th century and
one of the
world’s foremost
interpreters of
religious
symbolism and
myth.
Madalina Radu

16. • Cosmos and
History: The Myth of
the Eternal Return
• The Sacred and the
Profane: The Nature
of Religion
• Myths, Dreams and
Mysteries: the
Encounter between
Contemporary
Faiths and Archaic
Realities
• A History of
Religious Ideas

17. Henri Coanda
• In 1910, he designed, built and piloted the first jet
plane, known as the Coanda-1910, which he exhibited
at the second International Aeronautic Salon in Paris.
GabrielaAndrei

18. • 1930, he
discovered the
Coanda effect
that is the
tendency of a
stream of fluid to
stay attached to a
convex surface,
rather than follow
a straight line in
its original
direction.

19. • In 1935, he designed the Aerodina Lenticulara, which
was very similar in shape with what is known today as
“flying saucer” = ”Coanda’s UFO”.

20. Nadia Comaneci
• Nadia Comaneci (born
1961) is one of the most-
celebrated gymnasts in
the history of the sport.
• At the 1976 Olympic
Games in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, she was
the first person in
Olympic history to score
a perfect 10 in
gymnastics.
• In all, she earned seven
perfect scores at the 1976
games.
At Laureus Ceremony Award

22. Georghe Zamfir
• Gheorghe Zamfir is
without a doubt the
world's best-known
pan flute player.
• He has made
numerous recordings
and became widely
popular in the latter
decades of the
twentieth century

23. • Zamfir's unique style of
playing is characterized by
the bending of pitches and
imaginative improvisation.
• He has been featured on
the soundtracks of
numerous films, including
Picnic at Hanging Rock
and The Karate Kid.
• His albums for Philips have
included Music by
Candlelight (1983),
Romance (1984), A Return
to Romance (1988), and
Magic of the Panpipes
(2001).

24. Costin Mitrea

25. Ilie Nastase
• No player in history has
been more gifted or
mystifying than the
'Bucharest Buffoon', Ilie
Nastase, noted both for
his sorcery with the
racket and his bizarre,
even objectionable
behavior.

26. • During his illustrious career, he won two Grand Slam
singles titles - the US Open in 1972 and the French Open
in 1973. Nastase was runner-up at Wimbledon in 1972
and 1976 and, in all, he won 57 career singles titles and
51 doubles titles.

28. Nicolae Teclu
• Romanian chemist, who
gave his name to the
worldwide-used "Teclu
burner".
• He studied engineering
and architecture, and then
chemistry, continuing his
career by becoming
professor for general and
analytical chemistry in
Vienna.
• He also contributed
substantially to the
worldwide development of
chemistry.

29. George Emil Palade
• (1912 – 2008) was a
Romanian cell
biologist. In 1974 he
was awarded the
Nobel Prize in
Physiology and
Medicine, for his
innovations in
electron microscopy
and cell fractionation
which together laid
the foundations of
modern molecular cell
biology together with
Albert Claude and
Christian de Duve.

30. • Palade also
received the U.S.
National Medal of
Science in
Biological Sciences
for "pioneering
discoveries of a
host of
fundamental,
highly organized
structures in living
cells" in 1986, and
was previously
elected a Member
of the US National
Academy of
Science in 1961.
Radu Madalina

31. Eugen Ionescu (French – Eugène Ionesco
(1909 – 1994)
• One of the foremost Romanian playwrights, who wrote in
French, he was also one of the most prominent figures linked to
the Theater of the Absurd.
• He is known for his innovations brought to the dramatic
techniques used in the field of theater.

32. • His works render his
vision on the individual's
struggle to survive in a
society that isolates and
alienates people.
• Some of his famous
works include, Les
Chaises (The Chairs
(1952), Tueur sans
gages, (The Killer), 1959;
Le Roi se meurt (Exit the
King), 1962; and La Soif
et la faim (Hunger and
Thirst), 1966.

33. Romanian Team
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