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An Ay/5, Liviu Librescu applied for a visa to emigrate from his native Romania to Israel. The visa took three years to obtain, held up - quite literally - by “red” tape. Meanwhile, Dr. Librescu managed to get a manuscript of his technical work out of Romania for publication in an English language edition.
“I was terribly afraid of the possible consequences,” he said, “but I took the risks. There are many brilliant scientists in Romania, but it’s virtually impossible for them to get their work published outside of the country.”
Romanian scientists fall into two categories, those involved in politics and those who are not. “The latter are tolerated,” Dr. Librescu noted, “but have very few opportunities.” Dr. Librescu’s major professor, a respected member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences, was in the second category, but he was reluctant to help with his colleague’s publication efforts. It was simply too dangerous. When two other avenues closed, Dr. Librescu took it upon himself to get his manuscript out of the country.
His book, Elastostatics and Kinetics of Anisotropic and Heterogeneous Shell-Type Structures, was translated into English with the help of his friends and published in The Netherlands.
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