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Book launch: Horia Hulubei: The Structure of Matter, Vol. I, II

On November 22, 2022, as an event of the symposion “Horia Hulubei – the man and his heritage (II)”, organized by NIPNE (IFIN-HH), two volumes containing lectures on what Hulubei called “the negative electron” (containing early experimental studies of electron, photoelectric effect, spectroscopy, old quantum theory)  – the first one, and “the structure of matter” …

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Book launch: Horia Hulubei – the Man and his Time

On November 18, 2021, as an event of the symposion “Horia Hulubei – the man and his heritage”, organized by NIPNE (IFIN-HH), a book devoted to his life, scientific activity and heritage was launched: Horia Hulubei – the Man and his Time, Editor: Victor Bârsan, Horia Hulubei Publishing House, 2021, ISBN 978-606-94603-1-3

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Professor Sorin Mărculescu reconsiders Ţițeica’s papers on quantum electrodynamics

One of Şerban Țițeica’s former younger collaborators, Professor Sorin Mărculescu, published recently an analysis of magister’s papers on quantum electrodynamics. The abstract of this paper is reproduced here: A short presentation of Ţițeica’s papers on positron theory S. MARCULESCU Rom. Rep. Phys. 73, 107 (2021) Abstract. We present the computation of the elementary solutions of …

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Horia Hulubei: an anniversary and a celebration

2021 and 2022 invite us to an anniversary and a celebration of Horia Hulubei (November 15, 1896 – November 22, 1972): the anniversary of 125 years since his birth, in 2021, and the celebration of 50 years since his death, in 2022. There are several institutions and personalities eager to participate in these events, and – …

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Horia Hulubei in media: a study of political harassment in Romanian early post-WWII physics

As a scholar with long stages in Western laboratories, Horia Hulubei was confronted with harassment and pressure from sycophants supported by political police (Securitate) of the communist regime in the post-WWII Romanian Socialist Republic; actually, any connection with Western institutions, even the purely scientific ones, were used as a pretext for persecution, sometimes very severe, …

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Ţiţeica’s papers on quantum electrodynamics, now available in English

Three years after the publication of Şerban Ţiţeica’s PhD thesis translation into English, HHF provides an English version of his papers on quantum electrodynamics, as a Research Gate preprint, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24871.88486. Ţiţeica’s papers on quantum electrodynamics have been published in journals with limited circulation (Bull. Soc. Roum. Phys. and Bull. Sect. Sci. de l’Acad. Roum.) …

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