IN MEMORIAM PROFESSOR SIMION GOCAN (1930-2015)

Abstract

Professor Simion Gocan, Ph.D. one of the most important personalities in separation sciences in Romania, was born in the village of Berindu, Cluj County, on 26 December 1930. After having graduated from the Pedagogical High School from Cluj-Napoca in 1950, he studied at the Faculty of Chemistry of “Babeş-Bolyai” University untill 1954. In 1969 he defended his doctoral thesis entitled Paper Thermography under the supervision of Prof. Candin Liteanu, Ph.D. After graduating from “Victor Babeş” University, he began his didactic activity at the Department of Physics of the Polytechnic Institute in Cluj-Napoca in 1954, and then he taught at the Pedagogical Institute. He became assistant professor in 1962 and lecturer in 1963. In 1973 he accepted a position of associated professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry of the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babeş-Bolyai” University. From 1990 till 1995, when he retired, he was full professor and head of the Analytical Chemistry Department. After having retired, he continued to keep in touch with research as consulting professor and in 2009 he was appointed honorary consulting professor.