Constantin Cândea

Constantin Cândea ([konstanˈtin ˈkɨnde̯a]); (December 15, 1887, in Mărgineni, Bacău – March 4, 1971, in Bucharest) was a Romanian chemist, Professor of Chemistry, Ph.D. Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara and Rector of Polytechnic University of Timișoara - formerly Polytechnic School of Timișoara between 1946-1947

Constantin Cândea graduated from Prince Ferdinand High School in Bacău in 1907, and in 1911 from Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule München (now Technical University Munich).

He was married to Maria (Antoniade) Cândea (October 2, 1889, Galați - April, 16, 1974, Bucharest), teacher of French with higher education in France, who founded and led as headmistress the High School of Pedagogy for Girls ″Queen Marie″ (now National College ″Jean Monnet″) in Ploiești.

In the first year of activity of the Polytechnic School of Timișoara initiated by the Royal Decree No. 4822 of November 11, 1920 of King Ferdinand, Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Cândea created the Chemistry Laboratory and Professor Ph.D. Eng. Constantin Stăncescu initiated the Physics Laboratory.

He was Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences since December 21, 1935 and Full Member since December 20, 1936.

He was Rector of The Polytechnic University of Timișoara - formerly Polytechnic School of Timișoara between 1946-1947.

He died at the age of 83 and was buried in the Bellu cemetery, figure 4, in Bucharest.

Constantin Cândea has published numerous works, including:

• Separation of copper group metals (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.96, no.7, ISSN 1618-2642, pp. 276–276, 1934)
• Separation of the acidic sulfides of the other compounds of the sulphide precipitation (Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry, vol.97, no.3, ISSN 0937-0633, pp. 118–118, 1934)
• Separation of the acidic sulfides of the other compounds of the sulphide precipitation (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.97, no.3-4, pp. 118–118, 1934)
• Lead (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.110, no.5, pp. 206–208, 1937)
• Qualitative analysis (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.108, no.9, pp. 340–345, 1939)
• Fuels and petroleum based fuels (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol.118, no.5, pp. 208–222, 1939)
• Methane in connection with national defense(Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of Romania No. 10, 1942)
• Condensation of oxibenzaldehyde and nitrobenzaldehyde with 2.7 dinitrofluorura (European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, vol.75, no.12, ISSN 1434-1948, pp. 2017–2018, 1942)
• Organic nitrogen compounds (Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry), vol.125, no.1, pp. 48–57, 1943
• The reaction of methane with zinc chloride Angewandte Chemie, vol.56, no. 35-36, ISSN 0044-8249, pp. 247–248, 1943