The base of the scientific-research work in Vojvodina form the University of Novi Sad
[www.ns.ac.yu], branch of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU) and Matica Srpska. About 200 scientific projects are made up in Vojvodina per year whereas about two thousand scientific workers from the University and SANU, and about a thousand scientists and researchers of Matica Srpska are engaged in those projects, as well as experts from scientific institutes, museums, archives and companies.
The technical, bio-technical and technological investigations have priority. The best scientific results are being made in agriculture. In this area, the
Scientific Institute for Agriculture in Novi Sad has a notable reputation in the world.
The significant representatives in the field of medicine are the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases
[www.heart.ns.ac.yu] and the Institute for Lung Diseases
[www.ipb-ild.ac.yu] in Sremska Kamenica, near Novi Sad.
Vojvodina has given a notable contribution to the world science in the past. Physicist, electric engineer and inventor of the worldwide importance
Mihajlo Pupin was born in Vojvodina. The wife of the creator of the theory of relativity Albert Einstein,
Mileva Maric Einstein lived in Novi Sad. The scientific work of this notable mathematician attracts more and more attention in the scientific and publishing circles in Europe and the United States of America.
Scientific Institute for Agriculture
Mihajlo Pupin
Mileva Maric Einstein
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The Scientific Institute for Agriculture in Novi Sad is the most prominent and the largest Yugoslav institution for the agriculture research. The scientists of the Institute have created so far about 600 sorts of crop, industrial and forage crop, and vegetable hybrids. Out of it, 95 sorts and hybrids received the international awards. The Institute has managed the implementation of 36 international projects. The Institute's collection makes the component part of the bank of herbal genes of Yugoslavia and consists of several thousand genotypes of the herbal kinds. The Institute is the coordinator and carrier of the world programme of collecting, testing and preserving of genetic resources for sunflower, wheat and sorghum.
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Mihajlo Pupin (1858-1935), physicist, electric engineer and inventor, was born in the village of Idvor in Banat, Vojvodina. He attended schools in Prague, New York, Cambridge and Berlin where he received his doctor's degree. He was the professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia university in New York. He created 24 epochal inventions. The best known are "Pupin's coils" for transmission of telephone conversation to long distances. Pupin received the prestigious Edison's medal and Pulitzer Prize for his autobiographic book "Immigrant to Inventor". He was proclaimed the honorary professor at 20 world universities and was the first chairman of the New York Academy of Sciences born outside the United States of America. His personal friends were the US president Woodrow Wilson and Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein.
He died in New York in 1935, on the same date when he arrived in that city 61 years ago.
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Mileva Maric Einstein (1875-1948), notable mathematician, fellow scientist and spouse of Albert Einstein, was born in Titel (village in Vojvodina) and lived in Novi Sad for a long time. At the studies in Zurich, Switzerland, she met Albert Einstein, they got married and had two sons in the marriage which lasted from 1903 to 1919. Although Mileva Maric never signed any of the Einstein's works as his assistant, her scientific contribution to the work of the celebrated husband was indubitable. Mileva was a mathematician of the world class, and Einstein used her knowledge a lot.
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In the world circles, there are many researchers who think her name should be written down in the book of science with golden letters. Abraham F. Joffe witnesses that he saw a signature of Einstein-Maric on the work on special theory of relativity. It should be also mentioned that the money Einstein received with the Nobel Prize in 1922, he gave to his ex-wife Mileva Maric.
