Vintilă Ciocâlteu (1891-1947): physician, biochemist, poet and professor
Abstract
Among the ambassadors of Romanian science and culture, we include the doctor
Vintilă Ciocâlteu. Along with Victor Babeş, Nicolae Paulescu and George Emil Palade,
Vintilă Ciocâlteu contributed further, by the reagent which he prepared together with
Otto Folin, to the completion and deepening of the knowledge of cell biology within the
medical agricultural, horticultural research or industrial chemistry.
A multi-faceted personality, V. Ciocâlteu was also a remarkable poet, who
entered into an unjust and hopeless conflict with the communist regime. Just like many
of his compatriots, he was deleted from medical or literature books, was expelled from
the department of Medicine in Bucharest and was charged with offences that he did
not commit. But his name could not be deleted from the laboratory methods which used
- the Reagent Folin-Ciocâlteu!
Today, doctor Vintilă Ciocâlteu continues to promote the fame of the Romanian
medicine in the world.
Vintilă Ciocâlteu. Along with Victor Babeş, Nicolae Paulescu and George Emil Palade,
Vintilă Ciocâlteu contributed further, by the reagent which he prepared together with
Otto Folin, to the completion and deepening of the knowledge of cell biology within the
medical agricultural, horticultural research or industrial chemistry.
A multi-faceted personality, V. Ciocâlteu was also a remarkable poet, who
entered into an unjust and hopeless conflict with the communist regime. Just like many
of his compatriots, he was deleted from medical or literature books, was expelled from
the department of Medicine in Bucharest and was charged with offences that he did
not commit. But his name could not be deleted from the laboratory methods which used
- the Reagent Folin-Ciocâlteu!
Today, doctor Vintilă Ciocâlteu continues to promote the fame of the Romanian
medicine in the world.