List of Serbian inventions and discoveries
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Serbian inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented or discovered by Serbian people.
List
| Invention/discovery | Inventor/discoverer |
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| Hair clipper (and buzz cut)[1] | Nikola Bizumić |
| Ćuk converter | Slobodan Ćuk |
| Strawberry Tree (solar energy device) | Strawberry Energy |
| Extensively documented the flora of Serbia, classified many species of plants which were unknown to the botanical community at that time,[2] discovered the Serbian spruce. | Josif Pančić |
| Geologically researched and described the soil of Serbia in detail | Jovan Žujović |
| Discovery of the Neolithic site of Vinča culture | Miloje Vasić |
| Contributed significantly to the study of differential equations and phenomenology,[3] founded engineering mathematics in Serbia,[4] and invented one of the first prototypes of a hydraulic analog computer.[5] | Mihailo Petrović Alas |
| Iván Gutman | |
| Jovan Karamata | |
| Kurepa tree | Đuro Kurepa |
| Migma | Bogdan Maglich |
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Milankovitch cycles Revised Julian calendar[6] (second most accurate calendar ever written) |
Milutin Milanković |
| Tihomir Novakov | |
| Loading coil[9] | Mihajlo Pupin |
| Mihajlo Pupin Institute | |
| Quantum discord (one of discoverers) | Vlatko Vedral |
| Vladimir Vukićević | |
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Powered exoskeleton (developed at the same time as the General Electric / US Armed Forces "Hardiman")[10] |
Miomir Vukobratović |
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Prostethic five-fingered hand [11] |
Rajko Tomović |
Design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system,[12] Induction motor (invented at the same time as one by Galileo Ferraris),[13] Plasma globe,[14] Tesla coil, Tesla turbine, Tesla's oscillator, Tesla valve, Violet ray[15]
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Nikola Tesla |
| Voja Antonić | |
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Early plastics |
Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović |
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Karst and a number of geographical theories related to the Balkans |
Jovan Cvijić |
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Apollo (spacecraft); A team of 7 Serb engineers and scientists (known as Serbo-7) largely contributed to the Apollo project.[16] |
Serbo-7 |
| Roger Joseph Boscovich[17][18][19] | |
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Pioneer in the sociology of law and sociological jurisprudence. |
Valtazar Bogišić |
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Pioneering work in hypothermia. |
Ivan Đaja |
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Pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. |
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic |
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Pioneering work in the field of systems theory. |
Mihajlo D. Mesarovic |
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Inventor and constructor of the first railway air brake. |
Dobrivoje Božić |
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Invented and built the first known mechanical public clock in Russia in 1404. |
Lazar the Serb |
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Co-creator of Azithromycin. |
Slobodan Đokić |
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Designer of the rifle called "mauser-kokinka",[20][21] lauded as one of the best rifles in the world at the end of 19th century.[22] |
Kosta Milovanović |
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Research on interactions of neutrons in chemical physics of heavy elements. which turned out to be an important step in the discovery of nuclear fission. |
Pavle Savić |
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He led the first successful laboratory cultivation and serial propagation of Measles and Hepatitis B virus.[23] |
Milan Milovanović |
| Vuk Karadžić |