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Nuclear research pioneer Pavle Savić: A scientist in pursuit of truth

2019; Faculty of Agronomy in Čačak; Volume: 69; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5937/str1903003s

2683-5770

Jelena Samardžić,

Balkan and Eastern European Studies

This publishing year of the Scientific Technical Review is dedicated to Pavle Savić, an internationally recognized scientist who made a great contribution to discovery of nuclear fission, participated in the experiments related to the low temperature physic phenomena and published a series of works on cosmogony. He was a close associate of the Nobel laureates Irène Joliot Curie and Frédéric Joliot and Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa. His scientific work and his social engagement were driven by a struggle for truth, which he considered the basic moral imperative of a scientist. During the Second World War he was fighting for liberation from the Nazis as a member of the Yugoslavian partisans, and when the war was over he took a significant role in creating and development of science and education of a new country. He fought for the peaceful use of new scientific and technological accomplishments and took part in education of the generations of young scientists fighting constantly for their position in society.