Zdravko Stipčević

Phycists, academic and global expert in the study of symmetry groups in quantum theory and particle physics. Born in Sarajevo, he received a physics degree in 1958 at the University of Zagreb. As a graduate student he studied under Nobel Laureate Hideki Yukawa and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1965 in Japan. He taught at universities in Sarajevo, Khartoum, Heidelberg, Northwestern, Illinois and Delaware. He was a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University in 1972-1973. He became Head of the Department of Physics and Director of the Institute of Physics in Sarajevo. In 1983 he became associated with the University of Mississippi physics faculty as a visiting professor while holding a position in Sarajevo. In 2005 he returned to Sarajevo where he died.