Dan Giușcă

In 1927, Giușcă received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Cluj, having his theses on the morphotropic effect of closing of spiranic cycles.[1] After finishing his degree, he was hired by Ludovic Mrazec at the Geologic Institute and at the University of Bucharest's Department of Mineralogy.[1] In 1929, Giușcă obtained a scholarship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, after which he worked in Germany at the laboratories of Paul Niggli and Wilhelm Eitel.[1]

After returning to Romania in 1931, he taught at the University of Bucharest and conducted research at the Geologic Institute. At the age of 33, he became a lecturer (conferențiar) and at the age of 44, he became a professor.[1] Dan Giușcă was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1963[2] and a titular member in 1974.[3] Throughout his career he published over 130 scientific articles and books.[4]

After returning to Bucharest, Giușcă began studying at the Institute of Geology magmatic and metamorphic rocks.[1] He studied the chemical structure of Nagyágite,[1] contact metamorphism at Băița Bihorului and discovered a new of deposit zeolites.[2] In the Hinghiș Mountains, he studied granitic rocks, while in the Vlădeasa Massif he studied volcanic phenomena and the associated hydrothermal metamorphism.[2] Giușcă studied the granitic rocks of the Pricopan Ridge in Northern Dobruja, arguing for a magmatic origin of the epidote.[2]

During the 1950s, Giușcă began studying a new field: neogene volcanism and old metamorphism in the Carpathians. His studies included the neogene vulcanites of the Gutâi Mountains.[2] He continued studying mesozoic magmatism through the study of banatites and ophiolites in the Apuseni Mountains.[2]

• Rădulescu, Dan (2004). "Dan Giușcă - 100 ani de la naștere" (PDF). Romanian Journal of Petrology. 79 (Supplement Nr. 1). Retrieved 12 April 2013.