https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5 A brief history among Romanian brains of science en-us 2022-05-02 11:41:40 UTC 2022-05-02 11:51:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f47d.png andreistan4 https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166623071 On March 18, 1906 Traian Vuia achieved a short hop at a height of about 30 centimetres. His flight was performed in Montesson near Paris and was about 12 metres long.]]> 2022-05-02 11:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166623071 andreistan4 https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166623934 Henri Coandă was a Romanian inventor and pioneer of aviation. He exhibited the non-flying Coandă-1910 at the Second International Aeronautical Exhibition in Paris in October 1910, and built his first flying aircraft in 1911.
He discovered the Coandă effect of fluidics, and was the first to recognize the practical application of the phenomenon in aircraft design.]]> 2022-05-02 11:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166623934 andreistan4 https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166624720 On May 14, 1981, Romania became the 11th country in the world to have an astronaut in space. That astronaut, Dumitru Prunariu later served as president of the Romanian Space Agency.]]> 2022-05-02 11:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166624720 andreistan4 https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166625953 George Emil Palade was a Romanian-born cell biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 for his study of internal organization of such cell structures as mitochondria, chloroplasts, the Golgi apparatus, and for the discovery of the ribosomes. He also won the National Medal of Science in 1986.]]> 2022-05-02 11:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166625953 andreistan4 https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166627371 Mathematician Cristian S. Calude is known for his work on algorithmic information theory, while physicist Victor Toma is known for the invention and construction of the first Romanian computer, the CIFA-1 in 1955.]]> 2022-05-02 11:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andreistan4/heuof9roe94uhwe5/wish/2166627371