- Eduard Prugovečki
Eduard Prugovečki (
March 19 ,1937 –October 13 ,2003 ) was a Canadianphysicist andmathematician ofCroatia n-Romania n descent.Prugovečki was born in
Craiova ,Romania to a Romanian mother, Helena (née Piatkowski), and Croatian father, Slavoljub. He completed the first four years of secondary education inBucharest , before his family was forced to relocate toZagreb in 1951, due to an anti-Yugoslav campaign by the communist authorities. He finished high school there and proceeded to study physics at theUniversity of Zagreb , getting his diploma in 1959. He joined the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Institute "Ruđer Bošković " in Zagreb, where he worked as a research assistant until 1961.In 1961, as the best student of his generation in Zagreb, Prugovečki was sent to
Princeton University ,New Jersey ,United States . He wrote his doctoral thesis under the direction of theoretical physicistArthur Wightman , and earned hisPh.D. from Princeton in 1964. In 1965, he moved toCanada , where he first spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics inEdmonton ,Alberta , and then a year as a lecturer at theUniversity of Alberta .He taught physics at the
University of Toronto from 1967 to 1997. In 1974, he spent one year as a visiting professor at theCentre national de la recherche scientifique inMarseille ,France . Around 1986 he resigned from his membership in the International Association of Mathematical Physicists.In 1998 he retired to live in
Honey Harbour ,Ontario . Dr. Prugovečki died at the age of 66 at his home atLake Chapala ,Mexico .Works
*"Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space",
Academic Press 1971, ISBN 0125660502
*"Stochastic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Spacetime", Kluwer 1984, ISBN 902771617X
*"Quantum Geometry", Kluwer 1992
*"Principles of Quantum General Relativity", World Scientific 1995, ISBN 981022138X
* Janko Herak (editor), "Distinguished Croatian Scientists in America, Part Two", ISBN 953-97325-1-4External links
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* [http://individual.utoronto.ca/prugovecki/PrugoveckiBio.html Biography at University of Toronto]
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