CROATIA: The Year of Boškovic sponsored by the Parliament

Honoring the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great Croatian scholar and Jesuit Rudjer Boškovic, the Croatian Parliament is proclaiming the year 2011 as the Year of Rudjer Boškovic at the national level. The Jesuit, who was born in Dubrovnik in 1711 and died in Milan in 1787, apart from being an astronomer and physicist (he is famous for his atomic theory), was also a philosopher, theologian, mathematician, diplomat and poet.

Among the events planned for 2011 is an international congress organized by our Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb to be held in November 2011.

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