Tomislav Petković (August 17, 1951) is a Croatian physicist and philosopher.
Born in Šibenik, he completed primary school in Vrpolje and gymnasium in Šibenik in 1970. After having graduated electronics and radiocommunications at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (nowaday the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing) in 1974 and also philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of philosophy in 1976, he received his M.A. in nuclear instrumentation in 1977 and Ph.D. in experimental particle physics at th Faculty of Science in Zagreb in 1986 under the international committee.
He is a full professor at the Department of Applied Physics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, a guest physicist at the particle accelerator centres of BNL and TJNAF, and an associate professor at the department of physics at the East Carolina University.
He's the author of four books in the field of classical and modern physics and the philosophy of science, and co-author of two handbooks for the students of FER and/or PBF.
As an author or co-author he published more than 65 scientific papers, 50 of which are in the scientific journals (38 of which in prestigious physics journals), and about two dozen in science books. He's the author or co-author of more than 70 papers in the proceedings of local or international conferences, and a contributor to the new editions of the Croatian Encyclopedia for the headwords on classical physics, nuclear and particle physics, and the philosophy of science.
His chief scientific contributions include optimization of large-scale detectors for the detection of impact cuts of multinuclear absorption of pions in the nuclei, interaction of mions with nucleonic pairs, and deep bound states in the spectroscopy of lambda-hipernuclei crated by kaonic beams or by electroproduction. In the philosophy of science his main contribution are the works in which he offers philosophical reinterpretation of modern phenomenology.
Besides participating in numerous local conferences, he participated in 5 international physics conferences, and 3 international conferences on the philosophy and history of science.
He is a member of Croatian Physics Society, Croatian Philosophical Society, European Nuclear Society and the International Society for the History of Science.