V. Alexander Stefan

[[Image:V-STEFAN.GIF|thumb|right|200px|Dr. V. Alexander Stefan.

Brief Biography

Youth Years

Serbia - Montenegro (Former Yugoslavia)

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Stefan was born in Skopje, Macedonia (Former Yugoslavia) into a Serb family of intellectuals.V. Alexander Stefan was raised in the family of his grandfather (the father of his mother Rosanda) Stefan Radosavov Popovich - a prominent citizen of Podgorica, originally from Medun near Podgorica, Montenegro. The Popovich family line gave a famous duke and poet of Montenegro/Serbia - Marko Miljanov Popovich.

Related Topics:
Skopje - Macedonia - Serb - Intellectuals - Podgorica - Medun - Montenegro - Serbia

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Stefan attended primary school in Podgorica, Montenegro and

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Podgorica - Montenegro

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studied electrical engineering and physics in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Belgrade - Serbia

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Russian Years (1977 - 1981)

In Moscow, Russia Stefan performed research in theoretical plasma physics in the department led by Victor Pavlovich Silin - the founder of Plasma Theory Division at Lebedev Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Related Topics:
Moscow - Russia - Plasma - Lebedev Institute - Russian Academy of Sciences

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His studies were in the area of Tokamak and laser thermonuclear fusion - latter one being a research project led by the pioneer in the laser fusion Nikolay Basov, Nobel Prize winner in physics (1964) with Charles Townes and Alexander Prokhorov for laser research.

Related Topics:
Tokamak - Nikolay Basov - Nobel Prize - 1964 - Charles Townes - Alexander Prokhorov

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In Russia he has made short term research visits (giving research talks) at:

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• I. V. Kurchatov Institute , Moscow, Russia(Former Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy), Moscow, Russia.
• Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Former Leningrad),Russia.
• G. I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok,Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia.
• University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine (Former Soviet Union)
• University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia (Former Soviet Union)

USA Years (1982 - Present)

After Russia Stefan moved to the United States in late 1981. In the States he performed research in physics in numerous prestigious American research centers:

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Prior to 1989 (the year of founding of the Stefan University)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
• University of California Los Angeles, California,
• University of California San Diego, California,
• General Atomics, San Diego, California
• California Space Institute
• JAYCOR,San Diego, California
• Maxwell Laboratories, San Diego, California
• S-Cubed, San Diego, California, (Merged Out)
• Institute for Nonlinear Science, La Jolla, Californa
• Krall Associates, Del Mar, California,

1989 - Present

• Tesla Laboratories (R&D Division of Stefan University), La Jolla, California.

In La Jolla,California, whereby he settled, he worked, among others, with Keith Allan Brueckner- the founder of the Physics Department of the University of California, San Diego - on laser fusion and heavy ion beam thermonuclear fusion and

Related Topics:
La Jolla - California - University of California - San Diego

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with Nicholas A. Krall - the founder of the KRALL Associates, Del Mar, California, on Magnetic mirror Thermonuclear Fusion, Bumpy Torus Thermonuclear Fusion, and Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Thermonuclear Fusion..

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World Years (2001 - Present)

The establishment of divisions of the Stefan University International worldwide.

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• Stefan University International - Russia.
• Stefan University International - Japan.
• Stefan University International - China.