Mira Jurić

Nuclear physicist, professor and pioneer. Jurić was born in Travnik and graduated from the University of Zagreb (Maths & Physics) in 1940. From 1946-1948 she was a postgarduate student at University of Leningrad and attained her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Belgrade in 1956. She was the head of the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Belgrade and the Department of High Energy at the Institute of Physics. She has published a number of important works but her most significant contribution was in the discovery of the hypernucleus of helium 8. This discovery contributed to the development of the standard model of elementary particles that explains the action of fundamental forces in nature.