Gheorghe Spacu (December 5, 1883–July 23, 1955) was a Romanian inorganic chemist. Born in Iași, he attended the city's from 1894 to 1901. He subsequently enrolled in the physics and chemistry section of the sciences faculty at the University of Iași. There, his professors included Petru Poni (inorganic chemistry), (mineralogy and crystallography), (organic chemistry) and Dragomir Hurmuzescu (electrochemistry). Upon graduating in 1905, he went to deepen his studies at the universities of University of Vienna and then Berlin. He returned in 1907, when he began working as an assistant in the inorganic chemistry laboratory of Neculai Costăchescu, and was promoted to head of operations in 1916. That year, he received a doctorate in chemistry, having submitted a thesis on iron compounds. Afte