Ion Atanasiu

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Ion A. Atanasiu (25 September 1894 – 19 December 1978) was the founder of the Romanian School of Electrochemistry and the first to teach this subject in Romania. He is known as the originator of cerimetry, an analytical method based on Cerium (IV) as titration reagent.

Born in Iași, Atanasiu became a professor of geology at the University of Iași and later at the University of Bucharest. He was elected corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1940. His father, Sava Athanasiu, a geologist and paleontologist, became a honorary member of the Academy in 1945, while his brother, Gheorghe Atanasiu [ro], a physicist, became a titular member in 1963.^[1][2]