Nobel Romans that Romania has not nominated never

An American researcher, a fighter for Holocaust memory to New York and a German author, all of Romanian origin, received the Nobel distinction long after leaving his native country or in the period after the Second World War, be in the hard years of communism.

Doctor George Emil Palade, the militant anti-Nazi writer Elie Wiesel and Herta Muller was inscribed in the history of Nobel distinctions, but the states are proposed to foster expressed belief that professional. Journal, Romanian Academy had no Nobel nomination, confirmed the president NewsIn institution, Ionel Haiduc.

Leaving a country that just had come from a destructive war to come, while half a century, in the darkness of communism, is explained. The fact that the United States and Germany have found the space where their work has become valuable, is again explained, as we can not understand why the Communist authorities were never proud of her, which is why not have nominated the Nobel.

But why Romania and the Romanian society has not recovered just shy in the years following the collapse of communism is more difficult to understand. Two of the three born in Romania are in life, George E. Palade died last year, even Nobelurilor week. Elie Wiesel is but partially assumed by the Romanian society, as Herta Muller was recovered only in the narrow circles of letters. Of all the books they wrote, all talking about Romania and uprooting a citizen of it, only a few have been translated into Romanian. As she herself says, only in Germany was accepted as “Romance”, because at home, so that inconvenience or simply out of ignorance, not in any way assumed.

* Fate of a Roman doctor in New York

In 1974, a group of three doctors, among them the one of Romanian origin, received the Nobel medicine: Belgians Albert Claude and Christian de Duve and researcher George E. Palade, a Romanian by birth, after years of research on cell organization.

Born in Iasi on November 19, 1912, George Emil Palade graduated from medical school in 1936, in Bucharest. Between the period 1936-1938 is, successively, assistant, lecturer and lecturer at the Institute of Anatomy of Bucharest, this time studying the pathological anatomy and internal medicine with Professor M. Gh. Lupu. He obtained a doctorate in medicine by ‘tube urinifer of dolphins. Morphology and physiology Comparative Study “, in 1940.

After six years he was invited as “Visiting Investigator” Rockefeller Institute in New York, where he became assistant, then associate member, member, chief of the Laboratory of Cell Biology, 1956, and professor of biology. Since 1972 has led the department of Cell Biology Yale University in New York.

Emil Palade was a pioneer with his discoveries in molecular biology, and in October 1974, Swedish Academy gave the Nobel Medicine Prize, the highest scientific honor.

* Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jew, became a champion of peace

Romanian-born American Elie Wiesel, president of the Holocaust to “champion of peace” after the Nobel Committee recognizes him, in1986, recunoscundu it as “one of the most important spiritual leaders in the era in which violence, repression and still resismul characterize the world “.

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, but suffered along with his family, deported to Nazi concentration camps, where parents and sister died. Elie Wiesel and two of his sisters survived-but he never returned to Romania, but went to Paris, where he completed his studies at the Sorbonne.

In 1958, he published his first volume, “Night”, a book containing stories about the Nazi camps. Wiesel was established in New York and became a U.S. citizen.

* The Nobel committee Herta Müller he recognizes the right to tell the story of communist Romania

Herta Müller was awarded the Nobel for literature this year, for honesty that portrays the world of communism was uprooted from space. Born into a family of Banat Swabians, Muller emigrated to Germany in 1987, after its ties with German students and writers come to the attention of Banat Aktionsgruppe Security. Writer mother was deported to a camp in the Soviet Union, today in Ukraine.

Herta Muller started with “Niederungen” ( “lowlands”), which appeared incomplete but the Romanian edition of 1982. German academic community nominated twice for a Nobel prize and it granted the city of Berlin. Herta Müller was awarded the European Prize for Literature “Aristeion Prix” and the IMPAC Dublin International Prize for Literature for his book “The animal heart, translated in Romanian Polirom in 2006.

George Emil Palade, Elie Wiesel and Herta Muller has been awarded for their outstanding merits, but they have materialized and turned outside Romania, sometimes despite them, that other countries have received and adopted, gives them the instruments freedom without which scientific research has its own stake, the fight for social memory is not recognized and authentic writing can not exist.

Source: 9am News/13.10.2009