Pavle Savić

Pavle Savić (Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Савић; 10 January 1909 – 30 May 1994) was a Serbian physicist and chemist.

Pavle Savić
Born(1909-01-10)10 January 1909
Thessaloniki, Greece
Died30 May 1994(1994-05-30) (aged 85)
Belgrade, Serbia
AwardsLomonosov Gold Medal (1981)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Chemistry
Serbian stamp from 2009, marking the 100th year since the birth of Pavle Savić

Biography

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, at a time of much upheaval in the Balkans still not fully free of Ottoman or Austrian control, Savić would go on to graduate with a degree in physical chemistry from the University of Belgrade in 1932. In 1939, he received a 6-month scholarship from the Académie française to study at the Radium Institute, Paris, and he would spend 4 years in France. In the years 1937 and 1938, he worked with Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie on interactions of neutrons in chemical physics of heavy elements. This turned out to be an important step in the discovery of nuclear fission.[1]Together with Irène Joliot-Curie, Savić was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics.[2]

At the start of World War II, Savić left France and returned to Yugoslavia to fight for the liberation of his homeland as a partisan against German occupation. Apparently Savić was in the Soviet Union during World War II.[3]

After the war he was one of the primary promoters of the idea of constructing the Vinča Nuclear Institute in Vinča.[4][5]He was the principal of the Vinča Institute (at that time called the INS "Boris Kidrič") between 1960–1961.[6]In 1966 he assumed an academic post at his alma mater, the University of Belgrade, as a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Physical Chemistry and Department of Physics, now Faculty of Physics. In 1981, he took his retirement.[7]

He was also the president of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1971 to 1981, the year he retired.[8]

He published his last scientific paper a few months before his death, at the age of 85, in Belgrade.

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See also
  • Radivoj Kašanin

References
  1. https://books.google.ca/books?id=ILbQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA46&dq=Pavle+Savic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo7NKf3o_nAhWKbs0KHbSlAn0Q6AEISTAE#v=onepage&q=Pavle%20Savic&f=false
  2. A CHRONOLOGY OF THE ATOMIC VIEW OF NATURE
  3. https://books.google.ca/books?id=cs5wDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT238&dq=pavle+savic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH28eW3Y_nAhUtB50JHbRICSsQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=pavle%20savic&f=false
  4. https://books.google.ca/books?id=aYDQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP4&dq=Pavle+Savic,+Faculty+of+Physics&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJm-_Y4I_nAhUHbc0KHXqAB08Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Pavle%20Savic%2C%20Faculty%20of%20Physics&f=false
  5. https://books.google.ca/books?id=bodpAAAAMAAJ&q=pavle+savic&dq=pavle+savic&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGi_3W34_nAhVQVs0KHcjKAyE4ChDoAQhLMAU
  6. https://www.vin.bg.ac.rs/en/about-institute/history-of-the-institute
  7. https://books.google.ca/books?id=_l_pAAAAMAAJ&q=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&dq=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC7vWi5o_nAhUSK80KHT62Ao84ChDoAQhFMAQ
  8. https://books.google.ca/books?id=_l_pAAAAMAAJ&q=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&dq=pavle+savic,+teaching+staff+at+Belgrade+university&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC7vWi5o_nAhUSK80KHT62Ao84ChDoAQ
Academic offices
Preceded by
Velibor Gligorić		 President of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
1971–1981		 Succeeded by
Dušan Kanazir

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