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Svetolik Radovanović
Svetolik Radovanović (Prćilovica, Serbia, 23 March 1863 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 17 July 1928) was a Serbian state geologist, a member of the Serbian Royal Academy, a professor at the University of Belgrade, and the Minister of National Economy of the Kingdom of Serbia (1904-1905). With Jovan Žujović, he began collecting data on earthquakes, therefore, initiating the development of seismology in Serbia. Career At the election assembly on 5 February 1897, he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy ( SANU), and on 31 January 1902, he became a regular member. He is the founder of Serbian hydrogeology. He reformed the Serbian mining and forestry legislation, and in 1892, together with the geologist Jovan Žujović, he founded the Serbian Geological Society. As a minister, he passed the first rules of the mining and fraternal treasury for the insurance of miners, established Sunday-holiday schools for apprentices and issued the first yearbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prćilovica
Prćilovica ( sr, Прћиловица) is a village in the municipality of Aleksinac, Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas .... According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 2410 people.Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. References {{commonscat, Prćilovica Populated places in Nišava District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ljubomir Klerić
Ljubomir Klerić (29 June 1844 – 21 January 1910) was a Serbian mining engineer, mathematician, inventor, professor of mechanics and Minister of education and the economy. Education He was born in 1844 in Subotica. After primary school, he moved with his family to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. In 1862, he finished First men's Belgrade Secondary School and enrolled at the Faculty of Engineering of ''Velika Škola'' or the Grandes écoles, where he completed two years of study.Ljubomir Klerić (Julius Kleru) glas-javnosti.rs (2000-11-03) His interest for technology and great success in studying it "with a pronounced tendency towards mining" were more than enough to qualify for a "state scholarship" to be sent to study mining at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 Deaths
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1863 Births
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Marko Leko
Marko T. Leko ( sr-cyr, Марко Т. Леко) was a notable Serbian scientist, chemist, professor and president of the Serbian Red Cross. He played a major role in the professionalisation of chemistry in Serbia. Leko was born in Belgrade, Serbia, on September 17, 1853 to a merchant family. He attended and graduated from Polytechnic School in Zurich and obtained his doctoral degree in 1875. For a short period, he was employed in Hoffman's laboratory. Career He has 52 publications mostly in the areas of organic and analytical chemistry. Thanks to work he dedicated in writing his doctoral dissertation and the number of works that followed, he was able to solve one of the most sought problems of the time: does ammonium chloride and its closely related compounds belong to compounds of five valences nitrogen, N H4 Cl, or to compounds such as NH3·HCl. His work in analytical chemistry had two main interests: researching natural resources of Earth (mineral waters), and finding and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevan Karamata
Stevan Karamata (26 September 1926 – 25 July 2015) was a Serbian geologist, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a professor at the Faculty of Mining and Geology at the University of Belgrade. Biography Karamata was born in 1926 in Belgrade, Serbia to Ozren and Zora Karamata. He studied geology in Zagreb and Belgrade and graduated in 1950 from the Geological Department of the Faculty of Mining and Geology in Belgrade. From 1956 to 1967, he taught at the Faculty of Mining and Geology and he retired in 1990. His teaching and scientific work pertained to petrology, mineralogy, and geochemistry of ore deposits. He guest lectured at Jahseh and several foreign faculties ( Leoben, Freiburg, Zurich). He has engaged in research work in former Yugoslavia, Pakistan, Turkey, and other areas. Karamata became a corresponding member of SANU in 1970 and gained full membership in 1985. He was also a member of other academies of science, such as the Croatian Academy of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Popović Sandor
Aleksandar Popović Sandor, born Aleksandar Popović, (10 December ( Old Style) 1847, in Becej – 1877) was the father of Serbian geology. He first described the geology and natural wonders of Mount Fruška and what became in 1960 the Fruska Gora National Park. He did the first scientific investigation of the mineral springs at Vrnjačka Banja. The town of Becej was in Hungary at the time, and when he was less than a year old his family lost everything in the turmoil of the abortive revolution of 1848. He father, who fought in the revolution, died in 1856, a broken man. His mother believed strongly in education and scrimped enough to keep him, and his two brothers, in school. Aleksandar Popović tutored other students and won scholarships to complete his basic education in Pest. His older brother Stephan gained preferment with the Serbian Prince Alexander Karađorđević who was living in Pest at the time, and thus was able to support the family, allowing Aleksandar Popo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sava Urošević
Sava Urošević ( Vrmdža, Sokobanja, Serbia, 13 January 1863 - Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia 14 September 1930) was a Serbian mineralogist, geologist, rector of the University of Belgrade, and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and many other professional organizations, including the Chemical Society. He is recognized as one of Serbia's most renowned scientists in his field. Biography He graduated from the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Department of the Grandes écoles in 1884 in Belgrade, and then from 1885 to 1888, he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1889 he was an associate professor and then professor of mineralogy and petrography at the University of Belgrade, where he taught until 1928. He was elected a member of the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences in 1909. He left a large number of scientific papers, mostly published in SANU and Geological Annals of the Balkan Peninsula, as well as a large number of professional papers in the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir K
Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukrainian version of the name * Włodzimierz (given name) for the Polish version of the name * Waldemar, Valdemar for the Germanic version of the name * Wladimir for an alternative spelling of the name Places * Vladimir, Russia, a city in Russia * Vladimir Oblast, a federal subject of Russia * Vladimir-Suzdal, a medieval principality * Vladimir, Ulcinj, a village in Ulcinj Municipality, Montenegro * Vladimir, Gorj, a commune in Gorj County, Romania * Vladimir, a village in Goiești Commune, Dolj County, Romania * Vladimir (river), a tributary of the Gilort in Gorj County, Romania * Volodymyr (city), a city in Ukraine Religious leaders * Metropolitan Vladimir (other), multiple * Jovan Vladimir (d. 1016), ruler of Doclea and a saint of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Pavlović (geologist)
Petar Pavlović (Požarevac, Serbia, 28 June 1864 – Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 5 August 1938) was a Serbian geologist, also a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, lecturer at the Grandes écoles and a long-time director of the Museum of Natural History, Belgrade. Biography Petar Pavlović was born in Požarevac to Colonel Stojko Pavlović and Jelena "Lena" Lunjevica, daughter of Nikola Lunjevica, the Serbian revolutionary leader. After graduating from Belgrade's Grandes écoles, he went abroad to pursue further studies in geology and palaeontology. Upon his return to Serbia he was offered the post of director of the Museum of Natural History. Geology in Serbia The study of modern geology in Serbia began to develop in the first half of the 19th century mainly for two reasons: the endeavours of Prince Miloš Obrenović to expand the national economy (including mining) and the interest shown by European scientists for a country, newly liberated from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
