Pavle Savic
Pavle Savić (kyr. Павле Савић, also Paul Savitch ) (born January 10, 1909 in Thessaloniki , † May 30, 1994 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav chemist and physicist .
From 1935 to 1939 he worked at the Institut du Radium in Paris , which was then the world's most famous institute for the field of nuclear physics.
He became famous in 1938 through his collaboration with Irène Joliot-Curie . In 1937/1938 the two carried out an experiment with uranium in which an element similar to lanthanum was released, the chemical identification of which, however, proved to be extremely difficult and which, based on the assumptions about chemical relationships at the time, they considered a possible evidence of the element with the atomic number 93 (and therefore as Transuran ). This experiment was the basis for the physical explanation of nuclear fission by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch .
After the beginning of the Second World War he returned to Belgrade.
Since 1946 he was a member and from 1971 to 1981 president of the Serbian Academy of Science and Art (Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti; SANU).
He was a co-founder of the Serbian Institute for Nuclear Sciences Vinča (formerly Boris Kidrič Institute) in Vinča near Belgrade. There he was the first director from 1947 to 1960.
Publications
- I. Curie , P. Savitch: Sur les radioéléments formés dans l'uranium irradié par les neutrons II . Le Journal de Physique et le Radium 9 (1938) pp. 355-359.
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- ↑ tu-darmstadt.de: Nobel women ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Savic, Pavle |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Савић, Павле (Cyrillic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian chemist and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 10, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thessaloniki |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 30, 1994 |
| Place of death | Belgrade |