Stjepan Mohorovičić
Croatian scientist (1890-1980)
Stjepan Mohorovičić (August 20, 1890 – February 13, 1980) was a Croatian physicist, geophysicist and meteorologist, known as the "father of positronium", whose existence he predicted in 1934.
Biography
Mohorovičić was born in the town of Bakar. His father was the world-famous geophysicist Andrija Mohorovičić. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Zagreb where among others his professors were Vinko Dvořák and Andrija Mohorovičić, and later he studied at Göttingen where some of his professors were Arnold Sommerfeld, Woldemar Voigt and David Hilbert. Later on he received a doctorate degree from the University of Zagreb. Mohorovičić was an opponent of Einstein's theory of relativity. Because of his longtime opposition and criticisms of theory of relativity he remained a high school professor his whole life. His work went largely ignored, especially in Croatia. He died in Zagreb.
Scientific work
His scientific interests included seismology, meteorology, astrophysics and theoretical physics.
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