Zlatko Tesanovic

{{Short description|Professor of Physics}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Zlatko Boško Tešanović | honorific_suffix = | native_name = Zlatka Tešanovića | native_name_lang = | image = Zlatko Tesanovic.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date |1956|8|1}} | birth_place = [[Sarajevo]] | death_date = {{death date and age |2012|7|26 |1956|8|1}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], US | resting_place = East Lawn Palms Cemetery and Mortuary, [[Tucson]], Arizona, US | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = {{Plainlist| * [[Yugoslavia]] * [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://webpublicapress.net/sjecanje-znani-bosanski-fizicar-zlatko-tesanovic/|title=Bosanski Zlatko Tešanović|author=[[Kemal Kurspahić]]|website=WebPublicaPress|language=Bosnian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017230027/http://webpublicapress.net/sjecanje-znani-bosanski-fizicar-zlatko-tesanovic/|archive-date=17 October 2020}}</ref> * [[United States]]}} | nationality = | fields = {{Plainlist| * [[Condensed-Matter Physics]] * [[Strongly correlated material|Strongly Correlated Electrons]] * [[High-temperature superconductivity|HTS]] * [[Quantum Hall Effect]]s * [[Quantum Mechanics]] * High [[magnetic field]]s}} | workplaces = | patrons = | education = {{Plainlist| * [[Ph.D.]] in Physics, University of Minnesota (1980-1985) * [[B.Sc.]] in Physics, [[summa cum laude]], University of Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia (1975-1979)}} | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Sarajevo]] * [[University of Minnesota]]}} | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = {{Plainlist| * Foreign Member, The [[Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters]] * Fellow, The [[American Physical Society]], Division of Condensed Matter Physics * Inaugural Speaker, [[J. R. Schrieffer]] Tutorial Lecture Series, [[National High Magnetic Field Laboratory]] (1997) * [[David and Lucile Packard Foundation]] Fellowship (1988-1994) * [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] Fellowship, [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], 1985 (declined) * Stanwood Johnston Memorial Fellowship, [[University of Minnesota]] (1984) * Shevlin Fellowship, University of Minnesota (1983) * Fulbright Fellowship, U.S. [[Institute of International Education]] (1980)}} | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = [[Ina Šarčević]], a professor of physics at the [[University of Arizona]] and daughter of Philosophy Professor '''''[[:w:bs:Abdulah Šarčević|Abdulah Šarčević]]'''''. | partner = | children = '''''Rachel Šarčević-Tešanović''''', a Johns Hopkins graduate. | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Zlatko Boško Tešanović''' (August 1, 1956 – July 26, 2012) was a [[Yugoslav Americans|Yugoslav-American]] theoretical [[Condensed matter physics|condensed-matter physicist]], whose work focused mainly on the [[high-temperature superconductors]] (HTS) and related materials.

His particular research interests were in the areas of theoretical condensed matter physics, revolving primarily around iron- and copper-based high-temperature superconductors, [[quantum Hall effect]]s (QHE), [[superconductivity]] and [[Strongly correlated material|strongly correlated electron materials]]. His broad knowledge of condensed matter physics, his deep understanding of the effects of strong [[magnetic fields]], and his talent for exposition were influential.<ref name="Council-High">{{cite book |title=High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7vu9DwAAQBAJ|date=2013|publisher=[[National Academies Press]]|isbn=978-0-309-28637-4|page=184}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/2012/07/27/in-memoriam-dr-zlatko-tesanovic/|title=In Memoriam: Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic|date=27 July 2012 |publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016134511/https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/2012/07/27/in-memoriam-dr-zlatko-tesanovic/|archive-date=16 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="Baltimore-Zlatko">{{cite web|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-zlatko-tesanovic-20120804-story.html|title=Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, Hopkins physics professor|date=5 August 2012 |publisher=[[Baltimore Sun]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016135624/https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-zlatko-tesanovic-20120804-story.html|archive-date=16 October 2020}}</ref>

== Biography == He was born in [[Sarajevo]], former [[Yugoslavia]] (present [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]). In 1979, he received a [[B.Sci.]] in physics from the [[University of Sarajevo]]. He then received a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] and attended the University of Minnesota, where he earned a [[Ph.D.]] in physics in 1985. He became a [[naturalized American citizen]].

He worked as a [[professor]] of physics at [[Johns Hopkins University]] (JHU) in the [[Henry A. Rowland]] Department of [[Physics]] and [[Astronomy]] in [[Baltimore]] from July 1987 until his death on July 26, 2012. Previously, he served as director of the TIPAC Theory Center at JHU.<ref name="Baltimore-Zlatko"/>

He was a foreign member of the [[Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters]] and a fellow of the [[American Physical Society|APS]] Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP). He served as a member of the committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the [[United States]], and contributed strongly to it, until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phys.ufl.edu/~neil/2013%20NAS%20MagSci%20Report%20%28pre-pub%292.pdf|title=High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions|publisher=[[National Academy of Sciences]]|page=6}}</ref><ref name="Council-High"/>

== Students == Among his graduate students are:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hawk.fisica.uminho.pt/ccqs/CCQS-presentations/memorial_Tesanovic_Evora2012.pdf|title=The Biography of Zlatko Tesanovic|publisher=Ricardo Mendes Ribeiro professional page}}</ref> * ''Lei Xing'' (Jacob Haimson Professor, [[Stanford University]]) * ''Igor F. Herbut'' (Professor, [[Simon Fraser University]]) * ''Anton Andreev'' (Associate Professor, [[University of Washington]]) * ''Sasha Dukan'' (Professor and Chair of Physics, [[Goucher College]]) * ''Oskar Vafek'' (Associate Professor, [[Florida State University]] and [[NHMFL]]) * ''Ashot Melikyan'' (Editor, [[Physical Review B]]) * ''Andrés Concha'' (Postdoctoral Fellow, [[Harvard SEAS]]) * ''Valentin Stanev'' (Postdoctoral Fellow, [[Argonne National Laboratory]]) * ''Jian Kang'' (Grad student, Johns Hopkins University)

== Works == He gave more than 100 invited talks at scientific meetings, including major international conferences. He has authored and published more than 125 scientific papers, and a book entitled:<ref name="Council-High"/><ref name="Baltimore-Zlatko"/> * {{cite book|editor=Zlatko Tesanovic|title=Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics: A Workshop|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u662AAAAIAAJ|date=1990|publisher=[[Addison-Wesley Publishing Company]]|isbn=978-0-201-50391-3|pages=208 pages}}

== Honors and awards == * Fulbright Fellowship, U.S. [[Institute of International Education]] (1980) * Shevlin Fellowship, University of Minnesota (1983) * Stanwood Johnston Memorial Fellowship, University of Minnesota (1984) * [[J. R. Oppenheimer]] Fellowship, [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], 1985 (declined) * [[David and Lucile Packard Foundation]] Fellowship (1988-1994) * Inaugural Speaker, [[J. R. Schrieffer]] Tutorial Lecture Series, [[National High Magnetic Field Laboratory]] (1997) * Foreign Member, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters * Fellow, The American Physical Society, Division of Condensed Matter Physics

He received grants from the [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]], and the [[National Science Foundation]] awarded him a post-doctoral fellowship that enabled him to spend two years studying at [[Harvard University]].<ref name="Baltimore-Zlatko"/>

== Death == He died on July 26, 2012, at the age of 55 of an "apparent" [[heart attack]] at the [[George Washington University Hospital]] in Washington, D.C., after collapsing at [[Reagan National Airport]].<ref name="Baltimore-Zlatko"/>

On March 23, 2013, the Johns Hopkins University Department of Physics and Astronomy organised a memorial symposium as a tribute to him. A number of distinguished speakers have been invited to highlight Zlatko's scientific accomplishments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icam-i2cam.org/zlatko-tesanovic-memorial-symposium|title=Zlatko Tesanovic Memorial Symposium March 2013|publisher=ICAM-I2CAM [[Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017224732/https://www.icam-i2cam.org/zlatko-tesanovic-memorial-symposium|archive-date=17 October 2020}}</ref>

== See also == {{Portal|Bosnia and Herzegovina|United States}} * [[List of American Physical Society Fellows (2011–)]] * [[List of theoretical physicists]] * [[Piers Coleman]] * [[Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov]] * [[Edward Witten]] * [[Joseph Polchinski]]

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== External links == * [https://physics.aps.org/articles/v2/60 Are iron pnictides new cuprates?] by Zlatko Tesanovic — American Physical Society * [https://www.blogger.com/profile/18282986257334910966 Profile on Blogger] — [[Blogger.com]] * [https://ictp2010.blogspot.com/2010/08/pnictidesstrong-correlation.html Zlatko Tesanovic: What is the theory of the Fe-pnictides?] * [https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/25279682/curriculum-vitae-zlatko-b-tea-anovic-department-of- Curriculum vitae of Dr. Zlatko B. Tešanović]

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