Nuclear Research
Pioneer Pavle Savić a Scientist in Pursuit of Truth
Jelena
Samardžić
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.
Key words: Pavle Savić, nuclear physics, scientist, research,
education and social engagement
