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About Neculai Costăchescu
- Neculai Costachescu (18 February 1876–14 July 1939) was a Romanian chemist and politician. Born in Hu?i, he obtained a degree in physics and chemistry from Ia?i University in 1901.
- Costachescu earned a doctorate from the same institution in 1905, with a thesis on the gases found in Romania's salt deposits and muddy volcanoes; he was the university's first doctor in chemistry.
- He took specialty courses at the University of Zurich from 1906 to 1908, then was hired as professor of mineral chemistry at the Ia?i science faculty in 1912.
- There, he set up an organic chemistry laboratory.
- Thanks to his scientific activity, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1925, and was granted honorary membership in 1936.Costachescu entered politics in December 1918, at the close of World War I, and was a founding member of the Peasants' Party, serving as vice president until its 1926 merger with the Romanian National Party to form the National Peasants' Party (PN?).
- A prominent member of the latter, he was elected senator in 1926 and deputy in 1928.
- Between November 1928 and April 1931, he served as Public Instruction Minister in the PN? cabinets of Iuliu Maniu and Gheorghe Mironescu.
- He was Senate President from August 1932 to November 1933.Costachescu contributed to a number of specialized publications in Ia?i, such as Annales scientifiques de la Université de Jassy and Revista ?tiin?ifica V.
- Adamachi.
- His works included Fluosels de cobalt et de nikel (1911), Sels complexes de fer (1912) and Fluorures complexes de chrôme (1912–14).
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