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"Destiny is
your effort ! "
Anton Peterlin was born on 25 September
1908 in Ljubljana. He enrolled in the Faculty of
Arts of the University of Ljubljana upon com-
pleting secondary school, and after graduating
took a position at the Technical Faculty’s Phys-
ics Institute. He spent a year in Berlin, where he
Peterlin delivering a lecture in 1970. Družina Publishing House.
earned his PhD in 1938, but returned to the Fac-
ulty of Arts to become an assistant professor in
the physics department and a tenured professor
in 1946. The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and
Arts elected him a full member in 1949. A series
of disagreements led him to leave his home-
land and head to Munich in 1960, and then to
Scientist, professor of exper-
imental physics, polymer phys-
ics researcher, inventor, inno-
vator. He remained dedicated
to the study of large molecules
throughout his life, becoming a
world-renowned expert in this
field.
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the USA the following year, where he became
the director of the Camille Dreyfus Laboratory
in Durham, NC. Concurrently, he taught at Duke
University and at Cleveland State University as
a visiting professor. In 1973 he accepted a po-
sition at the National Bureau of Standards in
Washington, where he worked until his retire-
ment in 1984. He died on 24 March 1993 only a
few months after returning to Ljubljana.