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Law and Statute of the Academy before the Academy’s Assembly. Two versions of Supek’s unpublished plaidoyer for the radical change of the legal status of the Yugoslav Academy in 1954 edited by Ivica Martinović

Ivan Supek


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Abstract

In a short period between the Open letter of the Council of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, signed on 26 February 1954, and the formal and electoral session of the JAZU Assembly, summoned for 16 March 1954, Ivan Supek wrote a text, not only unpublished until today but also completely unknown, which I here bring to light fully convinced that this document will illuminate our knowledge of the pivotal moment in the history of the Ruđer Bošković Institute and in the life of its founder. Upon my lecture on the correspondence of Ivan Supek and Miroslav Krleža which followed after the Open letter of the Institute’s Council to the JAZU Assembly on 26 February 1954, held on the Conference of centennial birth anniversary of Ivan Supek at the Ruđer Bošković Institute on 19 May 2015, Dr Ivan Supek, son of the late Academician, first informed me that his father’s legacy contained two versions of a text referring to the Open letter. He then mailed them to me for further investigation and gave me his permission for their publication in transcript, for which again I am kindly indebted. All four illustrations, enclosed to this introductory note, are also published by courtesy of Dr Ivan Supek.

Keywords

Ivan Supek; Ruđer Bošković Institute; Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts; University of Zagreb; Soviet model of the organisation of scientific research; ‘big science; ’ self-governing research institute of natural sciences; professional societies of natural sciences

Hrčak ID:

154640

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154640

Publication date:

18.2.2016.

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