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Ilie Murgulescu (Cornu, 27 january 1902 -. Bucharest, 28 october 1991) was a romanian physical chemist and a communist politician. He was president of the Romanian Academy (1960-1963) and minister of Education (1953-1956 and 1960-1963). He served as a president of Romanian Academy between 1963-1965. He founded the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Romanian Academy where he presided until 1977. His investigations on physical chemistry covered a broad realm. Among main results can be cited those he got on molten salts electrochemistry. He did doctoral work on Copper thiosulfate complex fotochemistry under Fritz Weigert in Leipzig as adviser.

His son participated in mannifestations of support towards the hungarian revolution in 1956. This event affected Murgulescu's position in the goverment. After a while he was  reinstated at the ministry of Education.

He was elected honorary member of the Hungarian academy of Sciences. He authored a series of didactic books in 7 volumes on Physical chemistry called Introduction to Physical Chemistry printed between 1976-1984. Ilie G. Murgulescu