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A lecture in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Personal archiv of Primoz Strojnik, D.Sc.
Aleš Strojnik was born on 21 May 1921 in
Ljubljana, where he graduated from the Tech-
nical Faculty of the University of Ljubljana. He
worked as an aircraft designer at the Peter
Hribar factory under the mentorship of pro-
fessor Anton Kuhelj, who was later his PhD
advisor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineer-
ing of the University of Ljubljana. After secur-
ing a position at the Faculty of Electrical Engi-
neering of the same university, he specialised
in electron microscopy at the renowned Cav-
endish Laboratories at Cambridge University.
In 1969 he accepted a position as professor
at Arizona State University in Tempe. Stojnik
was keenly aware of the importance of inter-
national cooperation and his career led him
from Sweden and Egypt to Germany, Austral-
ia, and the US. He died in Tempe, Arizona, on
6 November 1995 and is buried at Žale Ceme-
tery in Ljubljana.
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His work spans the fields
of electronics, electronic op-
tics, vacuum technology, pow-
er transmission, electrostatics,
magnetism, physics, and aircraft
design.