In Memoriam Of Professor Teodor Munteanu

Authors:

Vladimir Boian

Summary:

December 17, 2018 was my first day as a trainee researcher in the Cryogenics laboratory at Ghițu Institute of Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies. I was greeted by a gray-haired man with a quiet voice and a cordial look; he was calm and benevolent. That man was university professor, doctor habilitated Teodor Maftei Munteanu. Our first discussion about science began with his question, “What is your subject of research, young man?” I proudly answered, “It is superconductivity!!!” Whereat he exclaimed, “What a coincidence, I also study superconductivity, except that I do it at a theoretical level, rather than at a practical level!" From that discussion, I understood that I was talking to a person who was highly skilled in the fundamentals of crystallography, superconductivity of bicrystals, magnetoresistive effects, semiconductor–semimetal electronic phase transitions, quantum oscillations, and thermomagnetic effects. In addition, he told me about the growth of glass-insulated thin wires and magnetothermoelectromotive oscillations in electron-irradiated AsSb alloys in detail.

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