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This bust of Jožef Stefan, the work of sculptor Jakob Savinšek, is in front of the
Jožef Stefan Institute.
Technical Museum of Slovenia. Photo: Sanja Živković.
STEFAN'S PROBLEM
Towards the end of his life, Stefan returned
to thermodynamics and began researching the
phase transitions between states of matter (wa-
He started publishing Slovenian poems in
ter-ice) and the evolution of the boundary be- various newspapers while in secondary school,
known as the Stefan problem and is used in the youth he was an avid singer; subsequently he
tween both phases. The phenomenon became
modelling and control of the solidification of
melted metals in the metallurgical industry.
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Artistic soul
and he played music throughout his life. In his
learned to play the violin and towards the end
of his life he even made one himself.