- Pavle Savić
Pavle Savić (
Serbian Cyrillic : Павле Савић) (January 10 1909 -May 30 1994 ) was aSerb ian physicist and chemist.Born in
Salonica , Savić graduated with a degree in physical chemistry from theUniversity of Belgrade in 1932. In 1939, he received a 6 month scholarship from the French government for studying at the "Institut du Radium "; instead of 6 months, Savić stays for 4 years inFrance .In the years 1937 and 1938, he worked with
Irène Joliot-Curie andFrédéric Joliot-Curie on research action of neutrons on the heavy elements. It was an important step in the discovery ofnuclear fission . Together with Irène Joliot-Curie was nominated forNobel Prize in Physics [http://www.3rd1000.com/chronoatoms.htm] .When Second world war began, Pavle Savić left France and came back to Yugoslavia to fight as a partisan against German occupation.
After the war he was one of the first promoters of the idea of construction of Institute for Nuclear Sciences in
Vinča [http://www.vin.bg.ac.yu/] . He was the principal of the Institute Vinča (in that time called INS "Boris Kidrič ") 1960-1966. In 1966 he returned to his position at his alma mater, theUniversity of Belgrade , Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry and Department of Physics (now Faculty of Physics [http://www.ff.bg.ac.yu/] ).He was the president of
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1971 to 1981.He was active till his last days. He published his last scientific paper few months before death, at the age of 85, in Belgrade.
External links
* [http://viva-fizika.org/content.php?article.14 About Pavle Savic on serbian science portal Viva fizika]
* [http://www.vin.bg.ac.yu/ Institute for Nuclear Sciences - Vinča (Belgrade suburb)]
* [http://www.phy.bg.ac.yu/ Institute for Physics, Belgrade]
* [http://www.bg.bg.ac.yu/ Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade]
* [http://www.serbien-montenegro.de/html/serbien_-_savic.html in German, but also links to English pages]
* [http://www.tvorac-grada.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1662&start=0 Velikani vremena... (in Serbian)]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9603135 about professor Pavle Savić]
* [http://www.3rd1000.com/chronoatoms.htm A CHRONOLOGY OF THE ATOMIC VIEW OF NATURE]
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