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Croatian famous poet - Dobriša Cesarić

Dobriša Cesarić, was a Croatian poet and translator.
He was born in Požega on January 10, 1902.
He spent his childhood in Osijek, where he graduated from elementary school and two lower grades of high school.
He collaborates in many newspaper and literary journals, such as: Pobratim, Literary Republic, Contemporary, Criticism, Croatian Review, Vienac..

His poems are an expression of the original experience. They flow naturally.
He translated works from German, Russian, Italian, Bulgarian and Hungarian.
He died in Zagreb on 18 December 1980.

CROATIAN FAMOUS WRITTER: Ivana Brlić Mažuranić

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer who was recognized in Croatia and worldwide as one of the most important writers for children.

On August 15, 1891, Ivana Mažuranić and Vatroslav Brlić,
a lawyer and politician, got engaged. Their wedding was on April 18,
1892, on Ivana's 18th birthday, at St. Peter's Church.

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was born in Ogulin in 1874.
She comes from the famous intellectual civic
family Mažuranić. Her grandfather was a famous politician, Croatian ban and poet Ivan Mažuranić

After the wedding, Ivana moved with her husband to Brod na Sava (now Slavonski Brod), where she lived most of the life she devoted to her family, education and literary work. She had seven children.

She died on September 21, 1938.

Croatian famous writter - MATO LOVRAK

Mato Lovrak was born in Veliki Grđevac, a village near Bjelovar, into a family of six tailoring craftsmen His father's name was Mata and his mother's Ana. He finished his four-year public school in his home village, and after four classes of a lower real gymnasium in Bjelovar, he enrolled at the Teacher's School in Zagreb, which he graduated from in 1919.

After graduating from school, he served as a teacher in Kutina, Klokocevac, Veliki Grđevac and Veliki Vijenci, and from 1934 until his retirement in 1954 in Zagreb. He also wrote stories, but gained particular popularity with childhood-themed novels.

He builds an interesting phabula with elements of adventurous, but also with didactic accents. Lovrak is the author of about thirty books, he entertained and raised young readers for several decades with an expression that testifies to the period, and is distinguished by imagination and humor. His works have been translated into many languages. He also wrote professional articles in pedagogical journals.

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FEZA GURSEY

Feza Gürsey was born on April 7, 1921, in ISTANBUL. His father was Resit Sureyya Gursey, a military physician, and mother was Remziye Hisar, a chemist and a pioneering female Turkish scientist. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1940, and received his degree in Mathematics – Physics from Istanbul Universty in 1944.

He married Suha Pamir, also a physics assistant, in 1952, and in 1953 he acquired the title of associate professor.
During 1957–1961 he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory , Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Yersey, and Columbia University.
In 1960s, he worked on the NonlinearChiralLagrangian and produced results of relevance to Quantum Chromodynamics.

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FEZA GURSEY

While he was an assistant in Istanbul University, he pursued a doctorate degree at the Imperial College London in the United Kingdom.
He completed his work on Application of Quaternions to Quantum Theory in 1950. After spending the period from 1950 to 1951 in postdoctoral research at Cambridge University, he worked as an assistant at Istanbul University .

Returning to Turkey in 1961, he accepted the title of professor from Middle East Technical University (METU) and took part in the establishment of METU Department of Theoretical Physics. Continuing his work as a lecturer at METU until 1974, he formed a research group. He started working at Yale University in 1965.
During these years, he took part in the formulation of grand unified theories.

Gürsey died in 1992, in New Haven, Connecticut. He is survived by his son, Yusuf Gürsey. The Feza Gürsey Institute, founded by the joint effort of Boğaziçi University and TÜBİTAK in Turkey, is named in his honor.