In memoriam of academician Valeriu Kantser

Abstract

When a good bright man leaves, the world becomes poorer. In April this year, the scientific community of Moldova lost an outstanding scientist, while the Moldavian Journal of the Physical Sciences lost its first editor-in-chief, founder, and „driving force” of our journal Academician Valeriu Kantser. I was lucky to work with this remarkable person for 36 years. In 1980, right after the graduation from postgraduate courses (me at the Kharkov Institute of Low Temperatures, while Valeriu at Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow), both of us started working with great enthusiasm in the Laboratory for Semimetals of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova under the guidance of academician Dumitru Gitsu. Working in the same office with Valeriu for the next 8 years, I had an opportunity to fully appreciate the scientific horizon and the broadest range of scientific interests of this bright and very energetic scientist.