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Djordje Stanojević
Djordje M. Stanojević also spelled Đorđe Stanojević (7 April 1858–24 December 1921) was a Serbian physicist, astronomer and professor and rector at the University of Belgrade. He is credited with the introduction of the first electric lighting and the construction of the first Teslian polyphase hydroelectric power plants in Serbia. Biography He was born on 7 April 1858 in Negotin, where he finished four grades of elementary school and a four-grade lower high school. He finished the upper grades of the grammar school in Belgrade, then in 1877, he enrolled in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. In those years, as a high school student, he wrote his first professional works. In 1881, he graduated from the Grande école in Belgrade and Professor Kosta Alković kept him as an assistant trainee at the Department of Physics. In the same year, he was in Paris for the first international exhibition on electricity. He remain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negotin
Negotin ( sr-cyrl, Неготин, ; ) is a town and municipality located in the Bor District of Southern and Eastern Serbia, eastern Serbia. It is situated near the borders between Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. It is the judicial center of the Bor District. The population of the town is 14,647, while the municipality has a population of 28,261 (2022 census). History Name The etymology of the town's name is unclear, and there are a few possibilities as to its background: # The Romance languages, Romance name origin thesis, such as the ''merchant place'' (cf. Romanian "negoț" or Spanish "negocios"), and the fact that Negotin is in a region with the presence of a significant Romanians, Romanian minority, similar to its namesake Negotino in North Macedonia with an Aromanians, Aromanian presence. # There is also the Slavonic languages, Slavonic origin hypothesis:, Proto-Slavonic "''něga''" (нѣгa) means "care" and the suffix "-ota//-otina" means "the action undergone or carried o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
