Joško Battestin

Joško Battestin
Joško Battestin
Born	March 14, 1918 (age 106)
Awards	Levstik Award ; 1965 for Mikroskop Pionir ;
	Scientific career
Fields	physics

Joško Battestin (born 14 March 1918) is a retired Slovene electrical engineer, inventor, physics teacher and author of a number of books on experiments in physics, many aimed at aiding the understanding of the subject by secondary school students.^[1]

Amongst his publications is a book on graphology, expanding on the theories of Ludwig Klages that Battestin published in 2008 at the age of 91.^[2] In 1965 he won the Levstik Award for his book Mikroskop Pionir (The Pioneer Microscope).^[3]

Selected published works

Osnove grafologije (The Basics of Graphology), 2008 (also published in French in 2011, Les bases de la graphologie)
Preskusi iz optike (Experiments in Optics), 2004
Preskusi iz mehanike (Experiments in Mechanics), 1994
Optika – osnove in meritve (Optics – the Basics and Measurements), 1991
Fizikalni praktikum I – mehanika, zvok in valovanje (The Physics Lab I – mechanics, sound and waves), 1985
Fizikalni praktikum II – elektrika in magnetizem (The Physics Lab II – electricity and magnetism), 1983
Mikroskop pionir (The Pioneer Microscope), 1963

References

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[1] Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport site, 2005 Awards for Achievements in Education

[2] Buča books site ISBN 978-9619009628

[3] The Levstik Award on the Mladinska Knjiga Publishing House site

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