Editing Janez Strnad (section)

== Life and work ==

Strnad was born in [[Ljubljana]], [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]] (now [[Slovenia]]).

He received a degree at the University of Ljubljana in [[technical physics]] in 1957, and got his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1963. His main research work was carried out at the Jožef Stefan Institute. 
He taught for many years beginning in 1961 at the [[University of Ljubljana]], Faculty for natural science and  [[technology]] on the Department of physics introductory courses and topics from [[physics]]. 
In 1974 he became a full professor. In 1990 he wrote a book about [[fundamental particle]]s physics entitled ''Iz take so snovi kot sanje'' (''We are such stuff as [[dream]]s are made of''). With his short and long articles he had deepened the knowledge about [[Joseph Stefan|Stefan]]'s [[science|scientific]] work. His thick booklet in the series of monographs, ''Zbirka Sigma'' (the Sigma Collection), entitled ''Kvantna fizika'' (''[[Quantum physics|Quantum Physics]]''), (DZS, Ljubljana 1974) contains a definition and introduction to the understanding of [[Werner Heisenberg|Heisenberg]]'s [[uncertainty principle]] for the graduate beginner. He wrote over 1000 works.

Strnad's works also includes topics of physics which are not exactly related at first glance to it, for instance as in this his article ''Znanost in politika v vinjetah'' (''Science and politics in vignettes'')].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020226173835/http://www.mzt.si/mzt/raziskovalec/1996-3/STRNADR3.HTML Znanost in politika v vinjetah by Dr. Janez Strnad]</ref>