Prof. dr 
Budislav Tatić

Biološki fakultet
Beograd, Studentski trg 16
Kuća:
tel: 011/430-719

 Prof. dr Budislav Tatić was born in 1926 in the village ot Tulare, municipality of Beloljin (Serbia). He is specialist in Plant Systematics and Phytocenology. He is a full professor at the Belgrad Biological faculty. He was awarded PhD degree for his thesis Flora and vegetation of Studena mountain near Kraljevo. For his advanced training he spent some time in Moscow, Leningrad, Torino, Sophia and Goettingen. He is abroaded member of Bulgarian Botanical Society. Professor Tatić was Head on Faculty of Sciences in Belgrade and Kragujevac.

Prof. Tatić published more than 100 papers, both in the country and abroad. His contribution is very important in about 20 Text-books for Midle schools and 4 Textbooks for University students. He was mentor for numerous MSc and PhD theses. His monograph is The century of the Botanical Garden "Jevremovac"of the University of Belgrade. He was decorated. with two medals of works, and October and 7th July prizes.


Prof. dr 
Dušan Teodorović

Saobraćajni fakultet, 
Vojvode Stepe 305
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/493-211, 
faks: 011/466-294
Kuća: 
Borivoja Stevanovića 16
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/489-0580
E-mail: 
teodor@eunet.yu

   Prof. Dr Dušan B. Teodorović (born in Belgrade, 1941) is a full professor of the Faculty of Transportation, University of Belgrade. He published over 100 papers, out of which 40 in international journals. He published three books abroad that made a mark in the international professional and scientific community. He is one of the pioneers in the field of "soft computations" (fuzzy sets and artificial neural networks) in modeling the problems of transportation engineering. His influence has been substantiated by his guest editing of special issues of the following journals: Transportation Planning and Technology and Fuzzy Sets and Systems, as well as writing invited review papers for the following journals: European Journal of Operational Research and Transportation Research. He also wrote a monograph entitled Traffic Control and Transportation Planning: A Fuzzy Sets and Neural Networks Approach for esteemed Kluwer Academic Publishers. He was a visiting professor (covering periods of one month to one academic year) at the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen, Delaware University (USA) and national Chiao Tung Taiwan University in Tai Peh.

Prof. dr 
Milenko Tešić

Kuća: 27. Marta 39, 
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/324-8005

   Prof. Dr. Milenko M. Tešić was born in the village of Zvizdar (Ub). He completed his elementary school in Valjevo and high school in Belgrade.  He participated in National liberation war, and spent his whole professional career as navy officer. He was retired as battle ship Captain in 1980. He graduated from the Military Navy Academy in Dubrovnik and Divulje, and completed his higher military education in Split. Prof. Tešić graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, at the Department of Geography, in Belgrade. He spent five years at the Naval Institute of Hydrography dealing with oceanography. Since 1992 he was a lecturer in the High navy school in Split and Military School in Belgrade. In 1965 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He was elected full professor in 1972.
   He is a member of a number of geographic associations, president of the Study group on sea research with the International Association of the geophysicists. He is editor-in-chief of numerous scientific papers. He is the author of 70 scientific, 120 professional, and 150 encyclopedic studies, as well as 25 confidential studies and 6 text-books. He translated from English, French and German. He was particularly engaged in physical geography, marine navy geography, methodology of the scientific work and geopolitics.

Prof. dr 
Dimitrije Tjapkin

Kuća:
Dr Dragoslava Popovića 15
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/323-8909

   Prof. Dr Dimitrije A. Tjapkin was born in Peć, Yugoslavia in 1926. He received his BSc degree in 1950 and PhD degree, both from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
   From 1950 onwards he was promoted to all academic positions to full Professor (1971). He was also the Dean at Faculty (1975-1977). He has taught both, graduate and postgraduate courses of solid state physics, solid state electronics and electronics components at the Universities of Belgrade and Niš. From 1965 - 1975 he was the Head of the Department of Electrotechnical materials, and from 1987 the Head of the Department of Microelectronics and Technical Physics.
   In 1955 he initiated the foundation of the Semiconductor Group at the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, and started his research in the field of semiconductors (development of the first diodes and transistors for the Electronic Industry of Serbia). Subsequently, he directed the applied and fundamental research in solid state electronics. He published over 200 papers, out of these over 50 in international journals. He was cited over 170 times in papers by other authors. Prof. Tjapkin is a member of the Serbian Scientific Society, European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities (Paris) and also a full member of the Yugoslav Academy of Technical Sciences (Belgrade).

Prof. dr 
Jovan Todorović

Mašinski fakultet, 
27. Marta 80
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/344-1799
337-0358.
Kuća: Golsvortijeva 27
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/344-1799

   Prof. Dr Jovan B. Todorović was born in Belgrade in 1932 where he finished his basic education. He graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 1957, where he was also promoted as the Doctor of Technical Sciences (Ph.D.) in 1972. From 1957 - 1963 he was employed by a tractor factory IMT in Belgrade, but he subsequently got a post at the School of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade. In 1977 he was elected assistant professor and promoted to full professorship in 1984.
   He published several books and over 200 papers, 40 of them in international journals and scientific conventions. He has realized a number of approved designs in engineering practice and owns several patents.<P255>
   His scientific and engineering activities were directed to two areas: (1) friction mechanisms and vehicle braking systems, and (2) system effectiveness, i.e. dependability, reliability and maintainability engineering. He gave important contributions to investigation and research of friction materials, particularly by modeling friction processes in vehicle brakes and clutches, as well as in the area of maintenance systems for motor vehicles and other complex technical systems.

Prof. Dr 
Marija S. Todorović

Poljoprivredni fakultet Beograd
Nemanjina 6, 11080-Zemun
tel: 011/615-315
Kuća:
tel: 011/667-775

   Prof. Dr Marija S. Todorović was born in 1941 in Novi Sad, where she completed high school. Received B.Sc. Engineering and her Ph. D. in Thermodynamics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade. Since 1989 she is Full Professor of Thermodynamics at Food Technology Department of the Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade. Specialization she made at the Technical University - West Berlin, postdoctoral research as Fulbright Scholar, at the Mechanical Engineering Department of UC Berkeley – Berkeley, USA, teaching as Adjunct Professor at the Architectural Engineering Department, University of Kansas, Kansas, USA. She has been the Scientific Secretary of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, Belgrade. She is founder and head of the Laboratory for Thermodynamics and Thermotechnics at the University of Belgrade. Her main interest and most important contributions are in the field of real matter thermodynamics; thermal and heat and mass transfer relevant properties of materials, including biomaterials; experimental and analytical study of fluid flow and heat and mass transfer phenomena in newtonian, non-newtonian, and heterogeneous multiphase systems, including phase change and porous media related to renewable energy sources and efficient energy use, energy conversion, conservation and storage, biotechnology and bioprocessing. She is one of pioneers in renewable energy sources research, particularly solar thermal and biomass energy in Yugoslavia. She published and presented 168 scientific papers and 72 technical papers, investigation reports, studies and design projects. She published 5 books and has been organizer, planner, conductor and coordinator of 25 Yugoslav and international multidisciplinary R&D projects, as well as designer, reviewer and consultant of a numerous thermal,- and biochemical - processing, energy conservation, solar thermal and integrated energy projects (some of them are the largest and most successful solar systems in Yugoslavia and Europe). She has been awarded: for "Innovations" by the Belgrade 1989 and Novi Sad Fair 1985, the Decoration of Merit with Silver Star of the Yugoslav Parliament 1978, for the Academic Year 1985/86 of the USA Council for International Exchange of Scholars, by the Belgrade University Teaching Accomplishments 1975 and 1989, with the KU School of Engineering Team Winner of the Second Award at the "Solar Two Challenge" USA-DOE/Southern California Edison Consortium's National Competition 1994. She was Vice-president of the C2 Commission and present member of B2 and C1 Commissions of IIF - Paris, She is former: Chairman of European UNESCO/ESSEN Working Group, Chairman of Joint UNESCO-FAO Working Group "Solar Water Heating Systems", a member of Joint EEC-FAO Working Group on PV. Presently, she is Yugoslav coordinator of the World Solar Program, a member of the Board for Energetics of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of ASME and ASHRAE (a member of Technical Commiittees – for Solar Energy Utilization and for Moisture Transport and Retardes), a member of scientific and organizing committees and invited, plenary speaker for series of international conferences (the I and II World Conference on Experimental Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, the ISES Solar World Congress, Clima 2000, etc.). Beside thermodynamics she has been teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in Heat and Mass Transfer, Solar Energy Utilization, Solar Thermal Systems, Transport Phenomena, Modeling and Optimization of Solar Thermal and PV Systems, Building Thermal Sciences and other.

Prof. Dr 
Pavle Tomić

Prirodno-matematički fakultet
Novi Sad
Trg Dositeja Obradovića 3
tel: 021/59-696
Kuća:
tel: 021/20-430
 

   Prof. Dr Pavle Tomić  was born on 17th September, 1948 in Turija, the municipality of Srbobran. He completed the primary school in his birth place, in 1963, and the secondary school in Srbobran, in 1967. He graduated on 17th June, 1971 at the Faculty of Science in Novi Sad with the average mark 9.25. He has been rewarded several times for the good results shown within the undergraduate studies. He got the MSc degree on 30th May, 1974 at the Faculty of Science in Belgrade, the average mark in the postgraduate studies being 9.00. He defended his doctoral dissertation, “Supplying the Settlements And the Industry of the Vojvodina With Water”, on 13th December, 1977 at the Faculty of Science in Belgrade (he was 29 years old at the time).

   When he finished the studies, he got the job of a teacher in the secondary school “Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj” in Novi Sad. After a couple of years, he got the position of the teaching assistant at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Science in Novi Sad. In 1978, he was promoted into assistant professor, in 1983, into associate professor and, in 1992, into the full-time professor of the University of Novi Sad.

   The complete bibliography list consists of 214 units: 91 scientific papers, 10 specialistic papers, 4 popular scientific papers, 16 textbooks (for primary and secondary school and university), 78 authorized units for encyclopaedia and 15 reviews.

   Thirty-two scientific papers were presented on scientific meetings both in the country and abroad. Twenty-two papers are written in the form of geographic monography. In the period before the economical sanctions, he has made several research-related visits to Szeged, Pecs, Regensburg, Poznan, Warsaw and Halle. During the sanctions, he has been twice in Timisoara and once in Ohrid and, after the sanctions were suspended, he has visited Budapest, Bucuresti, Timisoara and Lisboa.

   He has performed several functions since he started to work at the Faculty of Science in Novi Sad. Among others duties, he has been a chairman of the Financial Council of the Faculty, the chairman of the Union of Geographic Societies in SFRJ and the chairman of the Geographic Society of the Vojvodina. Together with  colleagues, he has successfully organized the 12th Conference of Geographers in SFRJ and two international symposiums on agrarian geography and environmental protection. he has been the director of the Institute more than once. At the moment, he holds the following positions: the director of the Institute of Geography, the chief of scientific project “The Complex Geographic Research of the Vojvodina” financed by the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia and the chairman of the Serbian Geographic Society in Belgrade.


Prof. dr 
Rajko Tomović

Kuća: 
Proleterskih Brigada 25
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/323-5329

   Prof. Dr Rajko M. Tomović was born in 1919 in Baja (Hungary). He graduated from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 1946. He received his PhD degree in 1952 in analog computers. From 1950 - 1964 he worked at the institutes Boris Kidrič and Mihajlo Pupin in Belgrade. From 1964 he was a full Professor of automation at the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade. He received the 7th July Prize of the Republic of Serbia, AVNOJ Award and the Medal of the American Society of Engineers. He is a full member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an external member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences. He published over 120 papers in domestic and international journals, congresses and symposia (France, USA, USSR, Germany). His major scientific contributions are related to development of prosthesis and orthosis, theory of dynamic system sensitivity, application of final automats in modeling and control of human extremity movements, and usage of artificial reflexes for robotic control.

Dr 
Vladeta Urošević

Kuća: Smiljanićeva 19
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/457-910. 
E-mail: 
eurosevv@etf.bg.ac.yu

   Dr. Vladeta V. Urošević was born in 1925 in Stopanja, Serbia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade, School of Natural Science and Mathematics, at the Department of Physical Chemistry, where he was also awarded a Ph.D. degree in physics. He was employed at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Vinča and at the Institute of Physics in Belgrade, keeping the posts of deputy director and president of the Scientific Council of the Institute. He published more than 120 scientific papers in the filed of atomic collision processes, physics of the weakly ionized gases,  physics of thin films, high pressure physics, biophysics and physical metrology. 
   His major contributions to development of physics and interdisciplinary sciences include introduction of the coincidence method in studying of atom collision processes and first measurement of effective cross sections of the elementary process of charge change during these collisions, introduction of spectrally separated measurements into the experiments with electron swarm and first determination of excitation coefficients of inert gases metastables, identification and studying of interference phenomena upon galvano- and photoluminescence of  thin oxide layers on valve metals, discovery of ‘anti-stoc’ spectral components in photosynthetic luminescence of plant leaves, discovery of dependence of life time of excited Cr states in ruby on pressures in range of 0-300 kbar, realization of black body at the hardening point of gold as a primary Yugoslav etalon of optic radiation and first Yugoslav two-color radiation pyrometer.

Prof. Dr 
Nadežda Vanlić-Razumenić
   Prof. Dr Nadežda Vanlić-Razumenić was born in 1935. in Belgrade in a professor’s family. She got her education in Belgrade and graduated  Chemical Engeneering in 1961. at University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
 She had been employed in the Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences from April 1962. until april 2000. The first ten years were devoted to the development and research of organic compounds labelled with beta-emitters C-14, S-35, H-3, and P-32. Her main interest was in research in the field of chemistry and biochemistry of radiopharmaceutical technetium compounds since 1973. Technetium is a rather new artificial radionuclide with a dominant role in nuclear medical diagnostics (scintigraphy), with a diverse chemistry, complicated by presence of tin and technetium complexes in diagnostic agents. So main topics of her research were chemistry of the mentioned conplexes, as well as their biochemical behaviour. She was awarded PhD in 1981. on Faculty of Pharmacy by presenting the thesis: BIOCHEMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE RENAL RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL TECHNE-TIUM COMPLEX IN THE RAT KIDNEY TISSUE. On the basis of the thesis five papers were published in international scientific journals covering considerable part of the dissertation.
 Her long lasting research covered radiochemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, organic chemistry (synthesis of organic ligands), and analytical chemistry of radioactive pharmaceuticals. She synthesized and developed a number of radiopharmaceuticals used for scintigraphy of  various organs. She was the chief of Dept. of labelled compounds and was leading the research team for technetium compounds.
 She attended summer school for radiopharmacy at University USC (L.A.) in 1977. with IAEA scholarship. In 1978. she spent  6 months in the Institute for Nuclear Research in Dresden (Prof. R. Münze). During 1987/1988 IAEA has sent her at Uneversity of Cicinnati (Ohio,USA) where she took part in the research in chemistry and biochemistry of new designed technetium complexes (Tc-99 and Tc-99m) lead by Prof. E. Deutsch. Also, she has paid several scientific visits to nuclear Institute “Demokritos” in Athens.
 Dr. Nada Razumenić  was awarded annual prize for 1985. established by Vinča Institute for the series of papers entitled Basic Research of Tc complexes.
 She is professor in the School for radioisotopes of the Institute since 1982. and her lectures are published in the text book of the Center under the title: Radioactive Labelling of Molecules.
 During 3 periods, each lasting 5 years, she was coordinator of very successful scientific projects that her Lab was granted from Ministry of Science of Serbia.
 She is member of Serbian Chemical and Pharmaceutical Societies, Nuclear Medicine Society of Yugoslavia, and of  European Association of Nuclear Medicine (Amsterdam).
 The list of her published works comprehend 170 bibliographic units as follows:  47 full scientific papers (30 of them  in eminent international journals, 17 in eminent domestic journals, including review papers in Tc chemistry); 19 full papers in Proceedings ( 3 in eminent international, 10 in international and 6 in domestic). She had 90 congress presentations (28 on international and 62 on domestic meetings, including 9 section lectures in radiopharmacy, radiologic protection, and physical chemistry). She was editor-in-chief and main author of monograph Radiopharmaceuticals-Synthesis, Properties, and Application, as well as coauthor of several other books. Her scientific results were cited 130 times (Science Citation Index).

Prof. dr 
Vladislav Varagić

Kuća: Nevesinjska 19 
11000 - Beograd,
Tel: 011/432-737

   Prof. Dr. Vladislav M. Varagić was born in Donja Trnava (near Kragujevac) in 1921. He graduated from the Faculty in Medicine in Belgrade and completed his postgraduate training at the University of Oxford (England). He was elected Assistant Professor in 1950, and subsequently full Professor. He was the Head of The Institute of Pharmacology of the Faculty of Medicine. Experimental pharmacology and clinical pharmacology were the fields of his particular interest. He was awarded the October Prize of the city of Belgrade and the Prize of the 7th July of the Republic of Serbia. He is a member of a number of national and international pharmacological associations. Science Citation Index of his papers are more than 1300. He was editor-in-chief of the journal ‘Iugoslavica Physiologica et Pharmacologica Acta’.
   He published 329 papers, out of which almost three quarters were published in English (in international journals 144, in national journals in English 109, and in national journals in  Serbian 76). He also published the following books:  Pharmacology (14 editions), Pharmacotherapy in Pulmonology (2 editions), Pharmacotherapy in Gastroenterology and Pharmacotherapy in Ophthalmology.
   Identification of a mechanism of neurotransmitter interaction in the central nervous system and understanding of catecholamine metabolism in stress conditions are his most prominent scientific contributions.

Prof. dr 
Jovan D. Vasiljević

Insitut za patologiju, 
Medicinski fakultet, 
Beograd, Dr Subotića 1, 
Tel: 011/684-060, 
685-559.
Kuća: 
Svetozara Markovića 81a 
11000 - Beograd,
Tel: 011/361-8786 
E-mail: 
lole@beotel.yu

   Prof. Dr. Jovan D. Vasiljević, orthodox Serb, was born in Belgrade in 1951 and graduated from the  Belgrade Medical School in 1975. He defended his MSc thesis in 1980, and in 1981 he was elected assistant professor. In 1988 he defended his PhD thesis, and in 1989 was elected associated professor (reelected in 1994). From 1986 till 1993 he was a consultant for cardiovascular pathology at the Clinical Center of Serbia, and since 1993 he has been Head of the Department of Cardiovascular pathology of the ‘Dedinje’ cardiovascular Institute.
   During 1982, he spent six months at Curie Institute in Paris, while in 1989/90 he spent a year at  Texas Heart Institute (USA). In 1986, he was awarded Saltikow’s Prize, and in 1996, the October Reward of the City of Belgrade. He is a member of numerous national and international associations, the founder and first President of the Yugoslav Division of  International Academy of Pathology, and Secretary General of the Yugoslav Section of the Balkan Medical Union.
   He has published over 390 scientific papers: 158 in extenso<D> (21 chapters or books, 29 papers in international journals and 108 in national journals). For 4 years he was investigator in the project on endomyocardial biopsies (1986-1989), conducted in cooperation with National Heart Hospital (London), and Head of 2 five-year projects, funded by the Scientific Fund of Serbia (last till  2000). He was the first one to introduce this analysis  in our practice, which enabled Belgrade to become Balkan reference center for endomyocardial biopsies.

Prof. Dr 
Dušan B.Velimirović
   Prof. Dr Dušan B.Velimirović, cardiovascular surgeon, Professor at the School of Medicine of the Belgrade University, employed at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, head of Yugoslav National reference Pacemaker Center in the period from 1993-2001. 
Born in 1947. in Belgrade, graduated at Belgrade University, School of Medicine in 1972. Specialized in general surgery at the II Surgical University Hospital and became board-licensed surgeon in 1980 (having passed his specialist exam with honour). He further specialized in cardiovascular surgery in United States and Netherlands. He acquired his MSc degree in surgery in 1983, and PhD degree in surgery 1987, both at the School of Medicine of the Belgrade University. In 1984 he was elected teaching assistant of the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, where he was consecutively elected docent, associate professor and professor in 1990,1996 and 2001. He participated in 4 scientific research projects of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia, in the capacity of associate investigator in two (period 1980-1991) and as a principal investigator in the other two (1991-2000). He took part in 16 international research projects (multicentric clinical trials) dealing with innovations in pacemaker technology, in cooperation with leading European research centers. He gave 24 lectures in the capacity of an invited speaker at international scientific meetings, worldwide. He was a chairman at scientific sessions and member of international scientific and organizational committees of the European, World and international congresses in the field of pacemaker therapy and cardiovascular surgery. Prof. Velimirovic was a President of the Organizing Committee of two national and two international symposia on pacemaker therapy, member of organizing and scientific committees of a number of national meetings of cardiovascular surgeons and cardiologists.
Professor Velimirovic is a member of the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery, European Working Group on Cardiac Pacing (national delegate), North-American Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology, Danubian Forum for Cardiac Surgery (national delegate), Hungarian Society for Cardiac surgery, New York Academy of Sciences, etc. As an acknowledgement for his scientific and research work in the field of cardiovascular surgery, he was appointed Fellow of the two most prestigious European organizations in the field: European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery – FETCS (in 1999) and European Society of Cardiology  - FESC (2001). Professor Velimirovic is a member of several Sections of the Serbian Medical Association and associate member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Serbian Medical Association, and President of the Working Group on Cardiac Pacing of the Yugoslav Society of Cardiology, Secretary General of the Serbian Society for Cardiovascular surgery, member of the Board for Cardiovascular Pathology of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts and member of the cardiovascular research team of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts etc. He published 375 articles, out of which 105 in extenso in books, journals and abstract books (33 in international and 72 in national publications), and 270 as abstracts in journals and abstract books (127 international and 148 national publications). Total R score of all publications is 380.6, and citation index in international literature 62 (according to Science Citation Index). He published articles as first author in the world and Europe most prestigious journals: Cardiovascular Surgery, European Journal for Cadiothoracic Surgery, PACE, etc. He was awarded a special prize for monography “Selected papers in Cardiac Pacing”, Belgrade 1997 and received international award from Vitatron, Velp, Netherlands 1992.       

Prof. Dr 
Milan Vojnović
   Prof. Dr Milan Vojnović, a university professor and a science consultant, was born in 1940. He attended elementary school in Čačak and the high school in Belgrade. He graduated and received his MA degree from the Law School in Belgrade. He received his Ph. D. degree from the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade.
For almost a decade, he was our country’s expert in the United Nations and UNESCO. He has visited 25 countries on four continents. He was a member of the editorial board of the Gledišta, Kultura and Međunarodni problemi magazines and the editor-in-chief of Pregled svetske privrede. He is a member of the editorial board of Vesnik, the journal of the Association of UPNS. He has been the deputy president of the editorial board of the Dissertation edition of the Andrejević Foundation ever since its founding. For many years, he has been a member of the managing board and vice-president of the Association of UPNS. He has contributed to many Yugoslav journals and papers.
He has been a member of the Scientific Society of Serbia since 2002.
He has published 14 books.
Starting with his first book devoted to the relationship between Blankquism and Marxism, which is, according to the meritorious evaluation, the most important paper of its kind in our country, professor Vojnović continued his very successful career with books and articles the subjects of which, at the time of their publications, were not studies in our country. With the passage of time, it was shown that those were the real subjects to be studied and many scientists starting paying them attention. Today, books and papers devoted to multinational corporations and present-day capitalism are the basis for understanding the most important economic and social trends. He published "Multinational Companies" (1974), "Socialism and Revolutionary Action: Essays on the Relationship Between Blanquism and Marxism" (1975), "Transnational Corporations", (1977), "Developing Countries and Transnational Corporations", (1979), "World Domination of Large Capital" (1981), "American Capitalism" (1984.), "Contemporary Capitalism", (1986) and "The Diamond Brilliance of Capitalism", (1990).
It is not only contemporary global issues that professor Milan Vojnović was interested in, but also in essential social movements within the Serb nation. It should be pointed out that his books deal with complex issues of the study of the Serb character. Most of these investigations were pioneering ventures in their time and professor Vojnovié has continued his interest in these issues even today. This can be seen from the published sociological studies, like "The Revival of the Serb Nation" (1993), "Sociology" (1994), "Unfortunate Diminishing of the Serbian People" (1995), "Empty Serbia" (1997), "The Setting of Serbia (1998) and, the last one, published toward the end of 2002, "Serbs at the Crossroads".

Prof. dr 
Vera Kovačević-Vujčić

Fakultet organizacionih nauka, 
Jove Ilića 154, 
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/465-855, 
faks: 011/461-221
Kuća: 
Milovana Marinkovića 5
11040 - Beograd
Tel. 011/467-737, 
E-mail: 
verakov@fon.fon.bg.ac.yu

   Prof. Dr. Vera V. Vujčić (born Kovačević) was born in 1947 in Belgrade where she completed her elementary and secondary education, and in 1970 graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,  University of Belgrade. In 1972 she completed her M.Sc. studies at the department of Mathematics of Rutgers University in USA, and in 1977 she defended her Ph.D. thesis at the Institute of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart. During her stay at Rutgers University, from 1970 till 1972, prof. Kovačević-Vujčić kept the post of an teaching assistant. Upon her return to Yugoslavia, she was employed at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences of the University of Belgrade, first as an teaching assistant (1972-1978), assistant professor (1978-1984) associate professor (1984-1994),  and since 1984 she has been a full professor.
   Among others, since 1978 she participates in the following activities: Head of the Seminary for Applied and Industrial Mathematics conducted once a week at the Institute of Mathematics of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of Program and Organizational Board of the Yugoslav Symposium for Operations Research, associate and subsequently one of the three Editors-in chief of the Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research. During the period 1975-1998, prof. Kovačević-Vujčić published 2 monographs, several text-books and 60 scientific papers in the filed of the mathematical programming and applied mathematics. She participated with her papers at more than 50 scientific conferences in the country and abroad.

Prof. dr 
Veljko Vujičić

Matematički institut SANU, 
Knez Mihajlova 35, 
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/630-170,
187-144, 
faks: 011/186-105.
Kuća: Njegoševa 72
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/444-4472

   Prof. Dr. Veljko A. Vujičić was born in 1929. in Nikšić where he  completed his high school education. He graduated from the Air Defense Military Academy in Zadar. He also graduated from The Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (Department of Mechanics) in Belgrade in 1957., where he  defended his MSc and Ph.D. theses in 1959 and 1961, respectively. The academic year 1950/60 he spent as a fellow at the Moscow State University.
   Currently, he is the Head of the Department of mechanics of the Institute of Mathematics of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
   In 1959, he was elected assistant professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. In 1961, he was promoted into associatee professor, and in 1974 he was elected as full professor.
   He is the author of two university text-books, while another two he translated from  Russian language. Prof. Vujičić published more than 150 scientific papers in national and international journals; 3 monographs (Covariant dynamics, Dynamics of Rheonomic Systems, Preprinciples of Mechanics), and in another one, published in Russian language, he was a co-author.
   He is a meritorious member of the Yugoslav Society of Mechanics, member of the International Academy of Non-linear sciences, situated in Moscow, and corresponding member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts from Paris.

Prof. dr 
Miomir Vukobratović

SANU, Knez Mihajlova 35
11000 - Beograd. 
Tel. 187-144.
Kuća: 
Gospodar Jevremova 14, 
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/624-065

   Dr Miomir K. Vukobratović was born in 1931. He graduated from the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 1957, where he also received his PhD degree in 1964. He defended another Dr.Sci. thesis in Moscow at the Institute of Machinovedeneya of the Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1972. From 1966 through 1996 he was the head of the Biodynamics Department, Director of the Laboratory for Robotics and Flexible Automation and Director of the Robotics Center at the Mihajlo Pupin Institute. Presently he is a scientific advisor at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. His major interests are focused at modeling of robotic systems dynamics, dynamic non-adaptive and adaptive control of non-contact and contact tasks in manipulation robotics, as well as dynamic modeling and control in locomotion robotics. 
   He is the author or co-author of 200 scientific papers in robotics and system theory published in leading international journals. He is also the author or co-author of about 350 papers in proceedings of international conferences and congresses. He is the author of 11 research monographs published in English, Japanese, Russian. Chinese and Serbian and 3 advanced textbooks in robotics. Dr Vukobratović is a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a foreign member of Soviet (presently Russian) Academy of Sciences, the first President of the Yugoslav Academy of Engineering and also a fellow of other international Academies.

Prof. dr 
Ivo Vušković

Kuća: Mihanovićeva 18
10000 - Zagreb, 
Hrvatska,
Tel. (385 1) 457-7243

   Prof. dr Ivo M. Vušković was born in 1912 in Zagreb. He graduated in 1936 from the School of Engineering in Belgrade. In 1939 he received his PhD degree from the Technical School in Munich. From 1938 through 1939 he worked at the Laboratory for Hydraulics of the Escher Wyss factory in Zurich. During the II WWar he took care of our refuges in Switzerland. In October 1945 he led about a 1000 refugees back to the homeland. In the period 1946-47 he worked in our consulate in Bern. After that he was appointed the Director of the Federal Institute of Turbomachines in Ljubljana, and elected Professor of Hydraulic Machinery at the School of Mechanical Engineering. 
   From 1947 he was actively involved in constructions of most hydroelectric plants in Yugoslavia. In the period 1950-1956 he was the Head of the project for the development of a jet motor prototype at the Military Technical institute in Žarkovo. In 1956 he moved to the School of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade University, where he was elected Professor in 1960. He was the Head of Department and the Director of the Institute of Hydraulic Machines. He introduced seven new courses on both, under-graduate and post-graduate levels. For years, he was the Head of the Serbian Scientific Society Club. He participated at 41 congresses and conventions, usually with a presentation of his own. He is the author or co-author of about 290 publications (research papers, studies, textbooks).

Prof. dr 
Đorđe Zrnić

Mašinski fakultet, 
27. marta 80
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/337-0266
337-0362.
Kuća: Čika LJubina 10
11000 - Beograd
Tel. 011/624-964

   Prof. Dr Đorđe N. Zrnić was born in Belgrade in 1934 where he graduated from high school and School of Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, he got a post in Srbija-Projekt Company. In 1960 he was elected assistant professor and promoted into full professor in 1982. He received his MSc and PhD degrees from the School of Mechanical Engineering. He has been the Head of Department of Mechanization. In the period 1994-1997 he was the Faculty Dean. He published 154 scientific and research papers in the country and abroad, out of which 71 in international publications. Most of his projects have been realized in practice. He was cited about 250 times in domestic and international journals, including the book "Technical System Simulation", Butterworks, London, 1989. He was Head of research projects for MHT. He was an invited lecturer in the country and abroad (England, France, Germany, etc) and on a series of international and domestic conventions. He published 8 books, with the total of 19 editions (three as the author and five as the first co-author), three of which are monographs. He designed 83 projects out of which 54 have been realized in the country or abroad. He also produced 59 elaborate projects for local economy. He developed, designed and constructed a series of complex, original and modern transporting machines and devices in the country and abroad (Burma, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Germany and Tanzania). All these devices have been constructed and functioning for years now. Many of them are innovative.  The result of this effort is a series of modern objects in the country and abroad (Russia, Burma, Indonesia).