Top science honours go to physicist and historian
Ljubljana, 17 December - The Zois Prizes for outstanding achievements in science went to theoretical physicist Boštjan Žekš and historian Milica Kacin Wohinz this year.
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Zois Prizes are given out in Ljubljana.
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Žekš worked at the Jožef Stefan Institute, taught biophysics at the Ljubljana Medical Faculty, served as the dean of the Nova Gorica University, and headed of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SAZU) between 2002 and 2008.
The 78-year-old made great contribution to the progress of the fields in which he worked, lectured in research centres around the globe and held opening lectures at major international science conferences.
Kacin Wohinz, 88, worked at the Contemporary History Institute in Ljubljana, also serving as its head between 1979 and 1983. Her research focused on the history of Primorska, above all the assimilation of the Slovenian minority in Italy.
She published in a number of scientific journals and wrote several books about assimilation to which Slovenians in Primorska and Croats in Istria were subjected during Italian occupation between 1918 and 1920, as well as their efforts to resist Fascism between 1920 and 1941.