Tomislav Uzelac
In 1997 Tomislav Uzelac, a student of the Universty of Zagreb, Croatia, invented the AMP Playback Engine, the first successful MP3 player. Two students from the University of Utah adapted it to work on Windows, and called it WinAMP.
Marin Soljacic
Marin Soljacic is the author of the new Wireless Power Transfer, conceived in 1996. It attracted a substantial interest of the press (more than 200 articles in leading newspapers and radio-reports in numerous countries around the world, including: USA, Germany, Australia, Iran, India, Croatia, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, UK, Poland, Canada, the Netherlands, Thailand, Dominican Republic). Marin Soljacic is a young Croatian physicist born in Croatia’s capital Zagreb, where he completed his secondary school education. Dr. Soljacic is employed as…
Nenad Ban
Nenad Ban is distinguished Croatian scientist, an expert in biochemistry and biophysics. He is recipient of the Heinrich Wieland Prize 2010 for his work on key structures in human fatty acid synthesis. According to Professor Konrad Sandhoff from Bonn, Germany, his work is “truly pioneering” and “great achievement”. Professor Ban is working at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. It is interesting that he and his group of young scientists had two publications in the same issue of “Science”.
Bits of History – Science 20
Stanko Hondl (1873-1971), professor of physics at the University of Zagreb, has a great merit for popularizing Einstein’s theory of relativity in Croatia. One of his students was William Feller, outstanding Croatian – American mathematician. One of the most outstanding representatives of photochemistry was Ivan Plotnikov (1878-1955), a Russian emigrant to Croatia (1918) and a professor of physical chemistry in Zagreb. Sibe Mardesic, distinguished Croatian mathematician (1927-2016) You can also see the names of three Croatian Nobel prize winners: Lavoslav…