Institutul National De Cercetare - Dezvoltare Pentru Fizica Si Inginerie Nucleara " Horia Hulubei " - Ifin - Hh (Romania)

The Institute of Physics of the Romanian Academy was established in Bucharest September 1, 1949. The Central Institute of Physics (ICEFIZ) was created in 1973 as an umbrella institution incorporating IFA, IFB, and anything throughout the country that had to do with physical research and education, including a factory of nuclear devices and a heavy water facility. As ICEFIZ was overhauled in 1977, IFA and IFB merged into the Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN, now IFIN-HH), with Professor Florin Ciorascu as director. At the same time, new institutes specializing in nuclear reactors, materials technology, radiation devices, space sciences, earth physics, seismology, etc., mushroomed around it on the Magurele site. In June 1977, Marin Ivascu was appointed as director general of ICEFIZ. IFIN and several other institutes of physics were separately accredited as national institutes in 1996. On the occasion, IFIN was renamed as the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Research and Development in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH).