Editing Anton Peterlin (physicist) (section)

==Life and career==
Peterlin was born in [[Ljubljana]], Slovenia. After receiving his D. Sc. in [[physics]] from [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] in Berlin, Germany in 1938, Peterlin accepted in 1939 the chair as a professor of physics at the [[University of Ljubljana]], where he remained for 22 years. Besides his pedagogical duties, he accepted in 1947 the position of the founding director of the [[Jožef Stefan Institute]] in Ljubljana. In 1960, Peterlin left his home country. In order to be able to continue his theoretical research on [[macromolecules]] he accepted the position of a full professor and head of the Institute of Physics at the [[Technical University of Munich]], Germany. Only a year later he relocated to [[North Carolina]] where he was entrusted with the directorship of the newly founded Camille Dreyfus Laboratory at the [[Research Triangle Institute]], which was almost entirely devoted to basic research on [[polymers]]. He also served as adjunct professor at [[Duke University]]. Upon his mandatory retirement in 1973 at age 65, Peterlin left for [[Washington, DC]] to become a senior scientist at the [[National Bureau of Standards]], now [[National Institute of Science and Technology]], a post he held until 1984.