Abstract:
Cristea Niculescu-Otin - a life dedicated to the Technological Chemistry School in Iasi. University Professor Cristea Niculescu Otin, with a training in chemical engineering, had a major contribution to the foundation and development of the chemical engineering education at „Gh. Asachi” University and Polytechnic School in Iași. His name remained for posterity in the history of the local and national education for his important work to the establishment of the superior technical school in the capital of Moldavia, whose first rector he was in the period 1938-1944. Together with the didactic activity and his preoccupation towards the organization of the laboratories necessary for the proper development of the educational process, Professor Otin also performed a remarkable research activity, especially in the field of Technological Chemistry.