Ante Graovac is a

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n scientist (born July 15, 1945 in

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, died November 13, 2012 in

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) known for his contribution to

chemical graph theory Chemical graph theory is the topology branch of mathematical chemistry which applies graph theory to mathematical modelling of chemical phenomena. The pioneers of chemical graph theory are Alexandru Balaban, Ante Graovac, Iván Gutman, Haruo Hosoy ...

. He was director of 26 successful annual meetings MATH/CHEM/COMP held in

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.– Pioneers of Chemical Graph Theory
He was Secretary of the

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Selected publications

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