ELISA LEONIDA ZAMFIRESCU 1887-1973 Zamfirescu was the first woman member of A.G.I.R. (General Association of Romanian Engineers). A street in Sector 1 of Bucharest bears her name. FACTS ABOUT HIS LIFE Returning to Romania, Zamfirescu worked as an assistant...
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ELISA LEONIDA ZAMFIRESCU 1887-1973 Zamfirescu was the first woman member of A.G.I.R. (General Association of Romanian Engineers). A street in Sector 1 of Bucharest bears her name. FACTS ABOUT HIS LIFE Returning to Romania, Zamfirescu worked as an assistant at the Geological Institute of Romania. During World War I, she joined the Red Cross. Around this time, she met and married chemist Constantin Zamfirescu, brother of writer Duiliu Zamfirescu. After the war, Zamfirescu returned to the Geological Institute. She led several geology laboratories and participated in various field studies, including some that identified new resources of coal, shale, natural gas, chromium, bauxite and copper. Zamfirescu also taught physics and chemistry. GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS The first woman engineer in the hisotry of Europe and in the world, Elisa Leonida zamfirescu was a graduate of the Polytechnic School of Charlottenburg, Germany, in 1912, becoming the first woman to receive an engineering degree at the pr
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