ANTON
PETERLIN
1908-1993
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Peterlin delivering a lecture in 1970 . Photo : Družina Publishing .
Scientist , professor of experimental physics , polymerphysics researcher , inventor , innovator , a worldrenowned expert in large molecules .
Anton Peterlin was born on 25 September 1908 in Ljubljana . Upon completing secondary school , he enrolled at the Faculty of Arts , University of Ljubljana , and after graduating took a position at the Technical Faculty ’ s Physics Institute . He spent a year in Berlin , where he earned his PhD in 1938 , but returned to the Faculty of Arts to become an assistant professor in the physics department and a tenured professor in 1946 . The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts elected him a full member in 1949 . A series of disagreements led him to leave his homeland and head to Munich in 1960 , and then to the USA the following year , where he became the director of the Camille Dreyfus Laboratory in Durham , NC . Concurrently , he taught at Duke University and at Cleveland State University as a visiting professor . In 1973 , he accepted a position at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington , where he worked until 1992 . He died on 24 March 1993 , only a few months after returning to Ljubljana .
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