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.

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Invention/discoveryInventor/discoverer
Hair clipper (and buzz cut) [1] Nikola Bizumić
Ćuk converter Slobodan Ćuk
Strawberry Tree (solar energy device) Strawberry Energy

Graph energy Matching polynomial

Iván Gutman
Jovan Karamata
Kurepa tree Đuro Kurepa
Migma Bogdan Maglich

Milankovitch cycles Revised Julian calendar [2] (second most accurate calendar ever written)

Milutin Milanković
Tihomir Novakov
Loading coil [5] Mihajlo Pupin
Mihajlo Pupin Institute
Quantum discord (one of discoverers) Vlatko Vedral

webGL APNG

Vladimir Vukićević

Powered exoskeleton(developed at the same time as the General Electric / US Armed Forces "Hardiman") [6]

Miomir Vukobratović

Prostethic five-fingered hand [7]

Rajko Tomović
Nikola Tesla

Galaksija (computer)

Voja Antonić

Early plastics

Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović

Karst and a number of geographical theories related to the Balkans

Jovan Cvijić

Apollo (spacecraft); A team of 7 Serb engineers and scientists (known as Serbo-7) largely contributed to the Apollo project. [11]

Serbo-7

Pioneer in the sociology of law and sociological jurisprudence.

Valtazar Bogišić

Pioneering work in hypothermia.

Ivan Đaja

Pioneering research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Pioneering work in the field of systems theory.

Mihajlo D. Mesarovic

Inventor and constructor of the first railway air brake.

Dobrivoje Božić

Invented and built the first known mechanical public clock in Russia in 1404.

Lazar the Serb

Co-creator of Azithromycin.

Slobodan Đokić

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

He led the first successful laboratory cultivation and serial propagation of Measles and Hepatitis B virus. [12]

Milan Milovanović

Serbian Cyrillic alphabet

Vuk Karadžić

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