Anton Peterlin (
1907-
1993) was a
Slovene physicist. After receiving his D. Sc. in
physics from
Alexander von Humboldt University[?] in
Berlin,
Germany in
1938, Peterlin accepted in
1949 the chair as a professor of physics at the
University of Ljubljana, where he remained for 22 years. Besides his pedagogical duties, he accepted in
1947 the position of the founding director of the
Jožef Stefan Institute[?] in
Ljubljana. In
1961, Peterlin left for
Duke University, where he also served as director of the Camille Dreyfus Laboratories at the Research Triangle Institute. Peterlin left
North Carolina in
1973 to become a senior scientist at the
National Bureau of Standards in
Washington, DC, a post he held for two years.
Anton Peterlin was an internationally-acclaimed scientist, the author of more than 350 scholarly publications. For his research he received the highest Slovenia's scientific award - the France Prešeren award[?] in 1955, and the American Physical Society's Polymer Physics Prize[?] for 1972. A specialist in polymers, among other areas, Peterlin was a member of numerous scientific societies, including the American Physical Society, the Deutsche Kolloid Gesellschaft[?], the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft[?], and the Slovene Academy of Sciences and the Arts[?] (SAZU).
Anton Peterlin died in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 26 March, 1993.
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