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this is a biography on Andrija Mohorovicic

Date Submitted: 12/09/2003 11:21:06
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Andrija Mohorovicic (1857-1936) Andrija Mohorovicic was a prominent Croatian scientist in the field of meteorology and seismology at the end of the nineteenth and in the early twentieth century. He was born on 23 January 1857 in Volosko near Opatija, where he went to elementary school. He attended secondary school in Rijeka and studied mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague in 1875. After graduating, he first taught in grammar school in Zagreb (1879-1880) and …

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…Mohorovicic raised the meteorological observatory in Zagreb from modest beginnings to a completely equipped modern institute that enjoyed world renown, especially in seismic measurements. He also organized the meteorological service in Croatia and Slavonia. At the beginning of his scientific career Doctor Mohorovicic devoted most of his energy to meteorology, but he had most success in the field of seismology and he founded the so-called Zagreb School of world recognition in this field of science."

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