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Janez Strnad (born March 4, 1934) is a Slovene physicist and populariser of natural science.Strnad was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Slovenia).
He taught for many years from 1961 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for natural science and technology on the Department of physics introductory courses and topics from physics. His surname Strnad in English means a yellowhammer.
He took a degree at the University of Ljubljana in technical physics in 1957, and got his Doctor's degree in 1963Events January-March January 11 The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 Elysee treaty between France and Germany January 28 Black student Harvey. His main research work was carried out at the Jožef Stefan Institute. In 19741974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). Events January-February January 5 Dungeons & Dragons officially released. February 4 Patricia Hearst, the 19 year old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped he became a full professor. In 1990Events January January 3 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 7 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello The man who led the coup aginst Dr Apo he wrote his beautiful and famous book about fundamental particles physics entitled Iz take smo snovi kot sanje (We are such stuff as dreamDreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. Dreaming is associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of sleep that occurs during the later portions are made of). With his short and long articles he had deepened the knowledge about StefanJoseph Stefan ( Slovenian Jozef Stefan) ( March 24, 1835 January 7, 1893) was a Slovenian physicist, mathematician and poet. Nekaj bode zmeraj Se ostalo There always something will remain da ne bomo vedeli, zakaj that we shall not know, why Jozef Stefan,'s scientificFor the scientific journal named Science see Science (journal). Science is both a process of gaining knowledge, and the organized body of knowledge gained by this process. The scientific process is the systematic acquisition of new knowledge about a syste work. His thick booklet in the series of monographs, Zbirka Σ (the Σ Collection), entitled Kvantna fizika ( Quantum Physics), (DZS, Ljubljana 1974) contains an almost 'perfect' definition and introduction to the understanding of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for the graduate beginner. He wrote over 1000 works.
Anyone who knows him can describe his piercing nature and precise ways of expression through his own simple words of what Lev Davidovich Landau once meant:
- "We can find similar thoughts by the other cosmologists,
- which have reputation they are wrong many times, but they never doubt"
- Janez Strnad from a review on Mirjam Galicic 's translation of
- Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (Obzornik mat, fiz. 39 (1994) 6, pp 191 - 192).
Strnad's works also includes topics of physics which are not exactly related at first glance to it, for instance as in this his article Znanost in politika v vinjetah (Science and politics in vignettes) available on the net.
- "Richarda Feynmana je vznejevoljil prijatelj astronom, ki se je hvalil z uporabnostjo svojih
- raziskovanj o vesolju. Po njegovem mnenju to ni bilo pošteno. Raziskovalec naj pojasni laikom,
- kaj dela, in "ce ga v takih okolišcinah nocejo podpirati, je to njihova stvar".
- (" Richard Feynman was annoyed by an astronomer friend who was boasting about the practicability of his
- researches on the Universe. He thought this was not fair. A researcher should explain to the laity
- what he is doing and "if they won't support him within such milieu, that is their own concern").
