Rudolf Podgornik
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Rudolf Podgornik (born in 1955) is a Slovenian physicist. His field of research is the physics of soft matter, the physics of coulomb fluids, macromolecular interactions and in particular the Lifshitz theory of dispersion interaction, the physics of membranes, polymers and polyelectrolytes and especially the physics of DNA. He is the head of the research program Biophysics of polymers, membranes, gels, colloids and cells, financially supported by the Slovene Agency for Research and Development. He also teaches at the Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana.
His Erdős number is 3. In 1999 he was awarded the highest prize for scientific excellence in Slovenia, the Zois Award.
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- Polymer Physics: DNA off the Hooke Article published by Nature in November 2006
- Rudolf Podgornik assosiated articles at arXiv.org
