Uroš Desnica (scientist)

Uroš Desnica (25 July 1944 – 17 November 2021) was a Croatian physicist. In 1968, he graduated experimental physics from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb and started to work at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in the materials research and electronics department. He received his doctoral degree from the Zagreb University in 1978 for his research of the physics of semiconductors. In late 1980s, Desnica was a visiting scientist at the State University of New York and the Scientific Center of the Cabot Corporation in Boston.