Editing Anton Peterlin (physicist)

{{Short description|Slovenian physicist (1908–1993)}}
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| birth_place       = [[Ljubljana]] 
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| death_place       = [[Ljubljana]]
| fields            = [[Physicist]]
| workplaces        = [[University of Ljubljana]], [[Technical University of Munich]], [[Research Triangle Institute]], [[Duke University]], [[National Bureau of Standards]]
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'''Anton Peterlin''' ({{Audio|Sl-Anton Peterlin.oga|pronunciation}}) (25 September 1908 – 24 March 1993) was a [[Slovenia]]n [[physicist]].<ref>{{cite book| author = Vili Bukošek|author2=Tanja Peterlin-Neumaier |author3=Janez Stepišnik |author4=Janez Strnad |author5=Saša Svetina | title = Anton Peterlin 1908-1993: življenje in delo| year = 2008|publisher=Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti | isbn = 978-961-6242-93-6 }}</ref>

==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.

==Recognition and legacy==
Anton Peterlin was an internationally acclaimed scientist, the author of nearly 400 scholarly publications. For his research he received the [[Prešeren Award]] (Slovenian highest scientific award) in 1955. He was awarded the [[Bingham Medal]] for [[rheology]] in 1970 and the [[American Physical Society]]'s [[High Polymer Physics Prize]] for 1972. A specialist in polymers, Peterlin was a member of numerous scientific societies, including the [[American Physical Society]], the [[Deutsche Kolloid Gesellschaft]], the [[Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft]], and the [[Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts]]. His son Boris Matija Peterlin is a distinguished biomedical researcher at the [[University of California, San Francisco]]. His grandson and namesake [[Anton Peterlin (soccer)|Anton Peterlin]] is an American soccer player.

Anton Peterlin died in Ljubljana.

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