Hrvoje Požar (5 July 1916 – 30 June 1991) was a Croatian engineer and one of the top world scientists at the

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Croatica, hr, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, abbrev. HAZU) is the national academy of Croatia. HAZU was founded under patronage of the Croatian bishop Jo ...

. Požar was born in

Knin Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...

, where he finished elementary school. He attended high school in

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and went on to graduate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

and became an electrical engineer. After graduation, he worked on a variety of managerial positions in power. In 1950, Požar began to teach part-time at the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb and in 1955 he gained his doctorate in technical sciences with his thesis on hydro power plants. In 1961 he became a full-time professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Zagreb and an associate member of the then

four years later. He served as a dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Zagreb in two terms (1960-1962 and 1968-1970), and as a vice rector of the University of Zagreb from 1970 to 1972. In 1984 Požar was awarded with

IEEE Centennial Medal The IEEE Centennial Medal was a medal minted and awarded in 1984 ''to persons deserving of special recognition for extraordinary achievement'' to celebrate the Centennial of the founding of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I ...

. He was also editor in chief of the country's Technical Encyclopedias from 1976 to 1991. Until his death he performed the duty of the Secretary General of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Požar died in

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at the age of 74. The

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has named its Energy Institute after him in his honor. The Croatian Energy Association also has an eponymous Foundation.HED: Zaklada "Hrvoje Požar"
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1916 births Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts 1991 deaths People from Knin Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery Croatian electrical engineers IEEE Centennial Medal laureates Yugoslav engineers {{Croatia-scientist-stub