Milan Sijerković (5 November 1935 – 10 December 2018) was an eminent
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, university professor, publicist and TV weather-presenter.

Life and work

Sijerković was born in Baošići near

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, today

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, to ethnic Croats. He studied

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and

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at the

Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb Faculty of Science ( hr, Prirodoslovno-matematički fakultet,lit. the Faculty of natural sciences and mathematics abbr: ''PMF'') is a faculty of the University of Zagreb that comprises seven departments - biology, physics, chemistry, mathemati ...

, where he firstly graduated in 1961, but also get a

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in 1977. From 1963 till his

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he worked in

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as a prognostic, at the

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as TV presenter and as a university professor at his alma mater. He was also contributor for Croatian scientific magazine ''Priroda'' (''Nature''). He has published more than a hundred scientific papers from the various fields of

, as well as collected Croatian

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about

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and numerous meteorological elements of the folk's wisdom, which he published in a few books. During his retirement, he honorary worked as a TV presenter at Nova TV and a columnist for their

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''Dnevnik.hr''. He died in

on 8 December 2018 aged 83.

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In memoriam
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