Robert Blinc

Robert Blinc (born October 31, 1933) is a prominent Slovenian physicist.

He was born in in Ljubljana. He graduated in 1958 at the Faculty of natural sciences in Ljubljana and was promoted to PhD a year later. He then started a post-doc study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When he returned to Slovenia, he continued his work at the Jožef Stefan Institute. He became a professor at the University of Ljubljana in 1970.

Blinc is one of the founders of uses of nuclear magnetic resonance for investigations of phase transitions and liquid crystals.

He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, he was its Vice-President from October 2, 1980, to May 6, 1999. He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and a honorable member of the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia.

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