Pavle Savić
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Pavle Savić | |
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| Born | 10 January 1909 |
| Died | 30 May 1994 (aged 85) |
| Awards | Lomonosov Gold Medal (1981) |
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| Fields | Physics, Chemistry |
Pavle Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Савић; 10 January 1909 – 30 May 1994) was a Serbian physicist and chemist.
Biography
Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, at a time of much upheaval in the Balkans still not fully free of Ottoman or Austrian control, Savić would go on to graduate with a degree in physical chemistry from the University of Belgrade in 1932. In 1939, he received a 6-month scholarship from the Académie française to study at the Radium Institute, Paris, and he would spend 4 years in France. In the years 1937 and 1938, he worked with Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie on interactions of neutrons in the chemical physics of heavy elements. This turned out to be an important step in the discovery of nuclear fission.[1]Together with Irène Joliot-Curie, Savić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics.[2]
At the start of World War II, Savić left France and returned to Yugoslavia to fight for the liberation of his homeland as a partisan against German occupation. Apparently, Savić was in the Soviet Union during World War II.[3]
After the war he was one of the primary promoters of the idea of constructing the Vinča Nuclear Institute in Vinča.[4][5]He was the principal of the Vinča Institute (at that time called the INS "Boris Kidrič") between 1960–1961.[6]In 1966 he assumed an academic post at his alma mater, the University of Belgrade, as a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry and Department of Physics, now Faculty of Physics. In 1981, he took his retirement.[7]
He was also the president of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1971 to 1981, the year he retired.[8]
He published his last scientific paper a few months before his death, at the age of 85, in Belgrade.
See also
References
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=ILbQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA46&dq=Pavle+Savic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo7NKf3o_nAhWKbs0KHbSlAn0Q6AEISTAE#v=onepage&q=Pavle%20Savic&f=false
- ^ A CHRONOLOGY OF THE ATOMIC VIEW OF NATURE
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=cs5wDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238&dq=pavle+savic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH28eW3Y_nAhUtB50JHbRICSsQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=pavle%20savic&f=false
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=aYDQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP4&dq=Pavle+Savic,+Faculty+of+Physics&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJm-_Y4I_nAhUHbc0KHXqAB08Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Pavle%20Savic%2C%20Faculty%20of%20Physics&f=false
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=bodpAAAAMAAJ&q=pavle+savic&dq=pavle+savic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGi_3W34_nAhVQVs0KHcjKAyE4ChDoAQhLMAU
- ^ https://www.vin.bg.ac.rs/en/about-institute/history-of-the-institute
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=_l_pAAAAMAAJ&q=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&dq=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC7vWi5o_nAhUSK80KHT62Ao84ChDoAQhFMAQ
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=_l_pAAAAMAAJ&q=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&dq=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC7vWi5o_nAhUSK80KHT62Ao84ChDoAQ
External links
- About Pavle Savic on serbian science portal Viva fizika
- Institute for Nuclear Sciences – Vinča (Belgrade suburb)
- Institute for Physics, Belgrade
- Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade
- in German, but also links to English pages
- Velikani vremena... (in Serbian)
- about professor Pavle Savić
- A CHRONOLOGY OF THE ATOMIC VIEW OF NATURE
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