A GLIMPSE INTO THE SERBIAN SCIENCE
Dear colleagues,
Serbia is a country of captivating cultural and historic heritage, and of natural beauty - so delightful and charming you might find out that one visit is not enough. The ECI website (www.eci2021.org) offers some ideas on things to see and do in Belgrade and Serbia. We, on the other hand, want to show you a glimpse into our science, so here are six Serbian scientists that made contributions to the world's scientific heritage.
Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American scientist, whose brilliant inventions laid
foundations for the technological world we live in now. Belgrade is proud to be
a home to some of Tesla’s original technical objects and personal items, as well
as his final resting place – Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia.
Who is the man that invented the twentieth century?
That is correct, the Moon has no atmosphere, as Ruđer Bošković, a Serbian scientist from
Dubrovnik, showed in 1753.
The Moon has no atmosphere?
This is a quote from Mihajlo Pupin, a Serbian-American scientist, Pulitzer prize winner,
philanthropist.
“Look at those animals and remember - greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.”
Milutin Milanković, a Serbian scientist, calculated the amount of heat Earth
receives from the Sun, and thus explained the long-term climate changes.
Ice ages and climate change on Earth - explained in Serbia
It was Miomir Vukobratović, a Serbian mechanical engineer, who explained the
forces behind two-legged locomotion.
It takes a Serbian to make a bipedal robot walk
And in cockle, a Serbian scientist Danica Gajić, who followed common knowledge
that she had heard as a child from peasants in her village, discovered a
bio-regulator that helps to increase corn yield.
“…when you weed a corn-field, don’t remove cockle…”
