Janez Strnad


Janez Strnad was a Slovene physicist and popularizer of natural science.

Life and work

Strnad was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
He received a degree at the University of Ljubljana in technical physics in 1957, and got his Ph.D. in 1963. His main research work was carried out at the Jožef Stefan Institute.
He taught for many years beginning in 1961 at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty for natural science and technology on the Department of physics introductory courses and topics from physics.
In 1974 he became a full professor. In 1990 he wrote his beautiful and famous book about fundamental particles physics entitled Iz take so snovi kot sanje. With his short and long articles he had deepened the knowledge about Stefan's scientific work. His thick booklet in the series of monographs, Zbirka Sigma, entitled Kvantna fizika, contains an almost 'perfect' definition and introduction to the understanding of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for the graduate beginner. He wrote over 1000 works.
Strnad's works also includes topics of physics which are not exactly related at first glance to it, for instance as in this his article Znanost in politika v vinjetah ].

Selected works

University textbooks

  1. Janez Strnad, Atlas klasične in moderne fizike, translation and adaptation of Hans Breuer, dtv-Atlas zur Physik,, DZS, Ljubljana 1993, pp 400,.
  2. Janez Strnad, Fizika, 1. del, Mehanika, Toplota,,.
  3. Janez Strnad, Fizika, 3. del, Posebna teorija relativnosti, Atomi,.
  4. Janez Strnad, Fizika, 4. del, Molekule, kristali, jedra, delci,.
  5. Janez Strnad, Mladen Gros, Marjan Hribar, Alojz Kodre, Naloge iz fizike,.

    Selected chapters from physics and postgraduate seminars

  6. Janez Strnad, Fazna, skupinska, signalna hitrost,.
  7. Janez Strnad, Poskusi v posebni in splošni teoriji relativnosti,.
  8. Janez Strnad, Na pot v kvantno elektrodinamiko,.
  9. Janez Strnad, Na pot k Schwarzschildu,.
  10. Janez Strnad, Homogeno gravitacijsko polje: med posebno in splošno teorijo relativnosti,.
  11. Janez Strnad, Začetki kvantne statistične mehanike,.
  12. Janez Strnad, Odkritje razcepa,.

    Books

  13. Janez Strnad, Jožef Stefan, Ob stopetdesetletnici rojstva,.
  14. Janez Strnad, Prapok Prasnov požene v dir,.
  15. Janez Strnad, Zgodbe iz fizike,.
  16. Janez Strnad, Fiziki 1,.
  17. Janez Strnad, Razvoj fizike,.
  18. Janez Strnad, Fiziki 2,.
  19. Janez Strnad, Fiziki 3,.
  20. Janez Strnad, Svet merjenj: o razvoju fizike in merjenju osnovnih fizikalnih količin,.
  21. Janez Strnad, Sto let fizike: od 1900 do 2000,.

    Scientific Articles

  22. Janez Strnad, Sto let Stefanovega zakona,.
  23. Janez Strnad, A. Vengar, Stefanova meritev toplotne prevodnosti zraka,.
  24. Janez Strnad, Kako je Jožef Stefan odkril zakon o sevanju,.
  25. Janez Strnad, Stefanov tok,.
  26. Janez Strnad, Stefanova naloga,.
  27. Janez Strnad, Stefanove elektodinamične enačbe,.
  28. Janez Strnad, Ernst Mach kot fizik,.
  29. Janez Strnad, Dvigajoči se mehurčki,.
  30. Janez Strnad, Oslabitev Brownovega gibanja,.
  31. Janez Strnad, Opazovanje in teorija,.
  32. Janez Strnad, J. Stefana 'Longitudinalna nihanja palic' ,.
  33. Janez Strnad, Ali mora znati, kdor uči?,.
  34. Janez Strnad, Superprevodnost,.
  35. Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi I. Interferenčni poskus s sevanjema v nasprotnih smereh,.
  36. Janez Strnad, Supertekočnost,.
  37. Janez Strnad, Fizika iz Karlsruheja: O novostih v poučevanju fizike,.
  38. Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi I. Youngov poskus z ionoma,.
  39. Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi, Interferenčni poskus z laserjema,
  40. Janez Strnad, Premo centralno gibanje J. Vege,.
  41. Janez Strnad, Nenavadni interferenčni poskusi, Interferenčni poskus z molekulami C60,
  42. Janez Strnad, Precesija enakonočij,.
  43. Janez Strnad, Osnovne fizikalne konstante 1998,.
  44. Janez Strnad, Rubinowicz v Ljubljani,.
  45. Janez Strnad, O gravitacijski konstanti,.
  46. Janez Strnad, Med dvema ognjema?,.
  47. Janez Strnad, Sevalni tlak in P. N. Lebedev,.
  48. Janez Strnad, Prožni trak kot model vesolja,.
  49. Janez Strnad, Stefanova sila,.
  50. Janez Strnad, Interferenca elektronov na svetlobi,.
  51. Janez Strnad, Vega o obliki Zemlje,.
  52. Janez Strnad, O elektronih v atomu,.
  53. Janez Strnad, Kako sem pisal učbenik za fiziko,.
  54. Janez Strnad, Bose-Einsteinova kondenzacija cezija,.

    Popular Articles

  55. Janez Strnad, Jožef Stefan, Ob stopetdesetletnici rojstva,.
  56. Janez Strnad, Stogodišnjica Stefanovega zakona,.
  57. Janez Strnad, Svetlobni mlinček,.
  58. Janez Strnad, Natančnejši podatki o vesolju,

    Colloquiums

  59. Janez Strnad, Bose-Einsteinova kondenzacija alkalijskih atomov,.
  60. Janez Strnad, Nobelova nagrada za fiziko 2000,.
  61. Janez Strnad, Alojz Kodre, Profesor Kuščer - In Memoriam,.