Krmpotić Franjo
Date of birth:
- 1938
Place of birth:
- Senj
Krmpotić Franjo
Academic titles:
- Doctor of Science
- professor Doctor of Science
Membership in the Academy:
- corresponding member – Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences (5/28/1998 – …)
Biografija
Franjo Krmpotić, a Croatian and Argentine physicist, was born in Senj in 1938. He is one of the most prominent physicist scientists of Croatian descent in Latin America. He was educated in Argentina, where he graduated in 1961, received his Doctorate in 1963, and from 1980 he was a full professor at the University of La Plata. From 1964 to 1966 he stayed at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, and after that he maintained significant scientific cooperation with Croatian physicists. At the time of the struggle for Croatian independence, he worked to encourage Argentine recognition of the Croatian state. His commitment concluded one of the first post-Yugoslav treaties between the University of Zagreb and a foreign university.
He has published over 80 papers in respected and prestigious scientific journals, has a reputation as the leading nuclear theorist in Latin America. In addition to developing procedures in theoretical nuclear physics, Krmpotić paid particular attention to electroshock processes in atomic nuclei such as beta decay, double beta decay and electronic dispersal on the nuclei. That is why his works were mentioned in the books of Blin Stopyle, Behrens and Bühring and Böhm and Vogl.
Since 1998 he is a corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.