ZAGREB, April 29 (Hina)- Eight annual awards for the highest scientific and artistic achievements were bestowed by the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences (HAZU) on the prominent scientists and artists Tuesday.
ZAGREB, April 29 (Hina)- Eight annual awards for the highest
scientific and artistic achievements were bestowed by the Croatian
Academy of Arts and Sciences (HAZU) on the prominent scientists and
artists Tuesday. #L#
The award for Natural Sciences and Mathematics went to the head of
the Organic Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry department of the Rudjer
Boskovic Institute, Dr. Mladen Zinic, and to Dr. Zlatan
Bajraktarovic, a regular professor of palaeontology at the Natural
Sciences and Mathematics Faculty in Zagreb.
The award for medical science was given to a regular professor of
the Medical Faculty in Rijeka, Dr. Stipe Jonjic, while the award for
philosophical science went to a scientific adviser at the Old
Slavic Institute in Zagreb, Dr. Milan Mihaljevic.
The award in literature went to a poet Andriana Skunca. The art
award went to academic sculptor Ivan Lesiak while the award for
music went to Dr. Mirjana Babic Siriscevic from Split.
Dr. Vedran Zanic from the Engineering and Shipbuilding Faculty was
presented with the award for technical science.
HAZU president Ivo Padovan held a speech to mark the 142nd
anniversary of the Academy stating that the Academy had always
attracted the greatest minds in Croatia and great scientific and
cultural personalities from other nations.
The most deserving for the founding of the Academy was Djakovo-
Srijem Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer, who became the Academy's
sponsor while its first president was a historian, Dr. Franjo
Racki.
Today HAZU has 146 regular members, 138 corresponding members and
92 associate members.
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