Mihailo Rašković ( Titel,

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, 1827 -

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, Principality of Serbia, 3 October 1872) was a chemist, professor at the

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and the Visoka škola. he is best remembered in Serbia as one of the fathers of modern Chemistry along with

Sima Lozanić Simeon Milivoje Lozanić and Simeon "Sima" Lozanić ( sr-cyr, Сима Лозанић) (1847 – 1935) was a Serbian chemist, president of the Serbian Royal Academy, the first rector of the University of Belgrade, minister of foreign affairs, mini ...

and

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. Rašković was a corresponding member of the

Serbian Learned Society The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

and a regular member since 13 January 1857. He was also a corresponding member of the Serbian Royal Academy: a regular member of the Department of Science and Mathematics, appointed 29 July 1864. Secretary of the Department of Science, Science and Mathematics (SUD) in 1867 and 1868.

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Educated in

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and Pšibran, where Mihailo Rašković studied to obtain his doctorate in chemistry. He was the first professor of chemistry educated abroad on the staff of the Belgrade Lyceum, the then highest learning institution in the Principality of Serbia, which eventually became the University of Belgrade. It was in Kragujevac that the

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was founded in 1838 and initially had two departments:

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and

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, and in Belgrade, in 1853 a new Natural and Technical Department was established, where chemistry began to be studied. That same year, Mihailo Rašković began to teach inorganic and

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and

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and to hold experiments and exercises in the

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, which he founded also in the same year. Rašković's laboratory was initially called Chemical Workshop but the name was changed to Chemical Laboratory when the Belgrade Lyceum was turned into the

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in 1863 and was moved from the Residence of Princess

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to the Captain Miša's Mansion. The name remained until 1906 when the laboratory was renamed ''Hemijski zavod'' (institute) and later ''Hemijski Institut'' (Chemical Institute), its current name. Although Rašković was not involved in research due to lack of resources, he did prepare the foundations ''" for the years to come. He established and introduced the first consistent chemical terminology in Serbia"''. Together with

and

, Mihailo Rašković is remembered as one of the most important names in chemical science in

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, that is, in the period before the founding of the University of Belgrade in 1905. After his death, in 1872, Sima Lozanić succeeded him as a professor of chemistry.

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* Miloje Sarić (1996), "Life and work of Serbian scientists", Belgrade: SANU. .

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