IN MEMORIAM - PROF. TEODOR HODIŞAN, PhD (1942 - 2012)

Abstract

Professor Teodor Hodisan graduated the Faculty of Chemistry of "Babeş-Bolyai" University from Cluj-Napoca in 1966 and was assigned as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of the Romanian Academy from Cluj-Napoca. On February 1, 1968, he was appointed by competition as an assistant at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, "Babeş-Bolyai" University in Cluj-Napoca. Afterwards, he ascended through all the steps of the university hierarchy: lecturer (1975), associated professor (1990) and professor (1997). In 1973, he defended his doctoral thesis under the scientific supervision of the renowned emeritus scientist Prof. Docentus Candin Liteanu. From the beginning he worked under the guidance of eminent professor Candin Liteanu in the field of analytical chemistry, specialization chromatographic analysis, a field in full expansion at that time. Thus, the research directions approached were focused on the development and application of chromatographic methods and he became a follower of the illustrious professor, managing to preserve the reputation of the Cluj chromatography school along with his colleague, Professor Simion Gocan.