Metallurgy, Vol. 59 No. 2, 2020.
Review article
The life and achievements of Acad. Ilija Mamuzić
F. Vodopivec
; Institute of Metals and Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Acad. Ilija Mamuzić for 35 years as Editor-in-chief of the journal Metalurgija, 42 years as the President of the Croatian Metallurgical Society, the goal of this article is to give an overview of his life and achievements. Rarely has an individual not only in Croatia but in the world had influence on his profession as I. Mamuzić his own – metallurgy. He was involved and worked in all metallurgical areas: science, profession, education, organising of Faculty or Institute, Symposiums, editing, popularisation and responsability for the profession and he is an author of the history of metallurgy on the territory of Croatia, during 6000 years. In Croatian Bibliografphy base CROSBI by registration, accepted and on print will be 925 works. By the same conditions in foreign bibliography ORCID 800 works. He participated even in the education of 47 generations students (1963–2010. He received 75 various acknowledgments etc. He is an exceptional personality as individual, scientist, pedagoge, and professional. Ilija Mamuzić has achieved plenty, not because he had or was obliged to, but because he wanted to. He didn’t work to live, but to live to work.
Keywords
metallurgy; science; education; journal; society
Hrčak ID:
232495
URI
Publication date:
1.4.2020.
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