A GLIMPSE INTO THE SERBIAN SCIENCE
Dear colleagues,
Serbia is a country of captivating cultural and historic heritage, and of natural beauty. Here, we want to show you just a glimpse into our science, so we present six Serbian scientists that made exceptional 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…”
