Nicolae Cajal was a Romanian Jewish physician, academic, politician, and philanthropist.
10 Facts About Nicolae Cajal
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Nicolae Cajal was the president of Federation Jewish Communities of Romania from 1994 until his death.
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Nicolae Cajal was a Member of the Romanian Academy, the Romanian Medical Sciences Academy, the British Royal Society of Medicine, and the New York Academy of Sciences.
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In 1944, Cajal worked as an intern in the hospital laboratories, in the laboratories of the bacteriology department of the Medical Faculty of Bucharest, and since 1945 at the department of inframicrobiology - virusology.
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Nicolae Cajal's contributions were published in over 400 scientific papers.
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In 1966, Nicolae Cajal became a professor and head of the virology department at the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy of Bucharest, having passed through all the didactic degrees, being, in turn, through the competition, trainer, assistant, head of works, lecturer.
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Nicolae Cajal was an active member of civil society, involved in improving awareness of war crimes carried out in World War II Romania and of the genocide in Transnistria and other occupied areas.
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Nicolae Cajal was elected as a correspondent member in 1963 and in 1990 a full member of the Romanian Academy.
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Nicolae Cajal was vice-president of the Romanian Academy, president of the Medical Sciences Section and president of the M H Elias Foundation.
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Nicolae Cajal was a member of the New York Academy of Sciences and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Oradea, Timisoara, Cluj-Napoca, and Iasi.