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Vuk Mandić
Vuk Mandić (born April 20, 1975, in Priboj, Serbia) is a Serbian-American astrophysicist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). (search on year=2017 and institution=University of Minnesota) Biography He grew up in Podgorica, where he received his elementary and secondary education. For his university education, he went to the United States. He graduated in 1998 with a B.S. in physics and mathematics from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and in 2004 with a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Bernard Sadoulet. From 2004 to 2007 Mandic was supported by a Millikan Postdoctoral Fellowship at Caltech to work on the LIGO project to search for gravitational waves. In 2007 he became a faculty member in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota, where he now is a Distinguished McKnight Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priboj
Priboj ( sr-Cyrl, Прибој, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. The population of the town is 14,920, while the population of the municipality is 27,133. Geography The municipality of Priboj is located between municipality of Čajetina in the north, municipality of Nova Varoš in the east, municipality of Prijepolje in the south-east, border with Montenegro in the south-west, and border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west. A Bosnian-Herzegovinian exclave (Međurečje (Rudo), Međurječje village) is surrounded by the Priboj municipality. The town of Priboj lies on the river Lim (river), Lim. It is 5 km away from Uvac, a smaller river that is the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Climate Priboj has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: ''Cfb''). History The hamlet of Jarmovac south of Priboj is the site of a prehistoric copper mine shaft which is one of the first evidences of huma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |