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București) a fost medic român specialist în gerontologie, academician
din 1974, director al Institutului Național de Geriatrie și Gerontologie
(1958 - 1988).
Ana was the youngest of four children, two brothers and two
sisters, born to Margarit and Sofia Aslan. Ana was said to be a very
intellectual child, learning to read and write already by age four. At
the age of 13, her father died, and her family then moved to
Bucharest, Romania. It was in Bucharest where she began her
studies. She graduated from the Central School of Bucharest in 1915.
The premature death of her father, whom she was close to, was said
to be the reason she wanted to become a physician. Although the
medical field was not a desirable field for women to enter, Ana Aslan
decided that was the path she wanted to pursue and attended the
Faculty of Medicine from 1915 to 1922. Her mother did not support
this decision of becoming a physician because of financial strains, so
Ana Aslan went on a hunger strike until her mother accepted her
medical career. During her time in undergraduate studies, she
attended to soldiers as a nurse during the First World War.
In all of his works (bridges, roads, silos, ports etc.), new elements
are to be found. Some of them were considered great technological
advances at the time.
Saligny drew the plans for the Adjud–Târgu Ocna railway, which
included the first mixed-use (railway and highway) bridges in
Romania (1881–1882). He was also involved in the construction of
numerous other metallic bridges, such as the one at Cosmești over
the Siret river, which measured 430 m in length.
Between 1884 and 1889, Saligny planned and built the first silos in
the world made of reinforced concrete, which are preserved today in
Constanţa, Brăila, and Galați. In the port of Constanța, he designed a
special pool to allow oil export and two silos for grain export.
Saligny's most important work was the King Carol I Bridge over the
Danube at Cernavodă. Construction work for the bridge started 26
November 1890, in the presence of King Carol I of Romania. The
bridge has five openings, with four being 140 m wide, and the
central one spanning 190 m. To allow ships to pass under the
bridge, it was raised 30 m above the water. The endurance test was
performed on the official opening day, when a convoy of
locomotives drove on it at 85 km/h. The bridge at Cernavodă
measures 4,037 m in length, with 1,662 m over the Danube, and 920
m over the Borcea Arm. At the time, it was the longest bridge in
Europe, and the second longest bridge in the world. The structure
was famous for its era, competing with Gustave Eiffel's engineering
works in France — the Garabit viaduct and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.