Croatian-Slovenian Meeting

Crystallographer B. Kamenar and mineralogist S. Scavnicar extolling the virtues of nitroglycerin with a wine chaser, an old Croatian tonic, at the restaurant GORNJI GRAD in Zagreb, Croatia. (Photo WLD)

The second Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting was held in Stubicke Toplice, Croatia September 30 - October 1, 1993. The Croatian Crystallographic Association (CCA) and the Slovenian Crystallographic Society (SCS) comprise 80% of the members of the former Yugoslav Center of Crystallography, founded in 1966 and dissolved in 1991. The center had organized annual conferences, from 1966 until 1991, including six joint conferences with the Italian Crystallographic Association and the 13th European Crystallographic Meeting, Ljubljana-Trieste, 1991.

The Second Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting was co-chaired by Professor Boris Kamenar, the president of CCA, and Professor Ljubo Golic, the president of SCS, and sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia and PLIVA, Pharmaceutical, Chemical, Food, and Cosmetic Industry, Zagreb. The main topics of the meeting were chemical, physical, biological, and industrial crystallography and mineralogy. There were 70 participants of the meeting, giving 46 oral contributions. Half of the participants were young crystallographers and postgraduate students, an encouraging sign for the future of crystallography in the two countries. The Third Slovenian-Croatian Crystallographic Meeting will be held in the autumn of 1994 in the Republic of Slovenia.