Academician Ljubomir Berberovic, PhD (1933-2019)
On February 12th, 2019 passed away academician Ljubomir Berberovic. He was born in Sarajevo in 1933. He studied medicine, biology and philosophy at the universities in Ljubljana and Sarajevo. Graduated in Biology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo, in biology in 1958 from the Natural-Mathematics Department. In the same department he was elected assistant in 1959. Since 1961 he has been employed by the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Sarajevo. In 1964, Ljubomir Berberovic defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic „The Microevolution of the Species Eobania Vermiculata on the Central Adriatic Coast and the Islands”. For an assistant professor on the subject Organic Evolution with Genetics, he was elected in June 1964, for a professor in January 1970 and in a full professor in June 1975. In addition to the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, he was a teacher at the subjects of Genetics, Evolution, Anthropology at several other faculties of the University of Sarajevo, including Medical faculty. He was a lecturer at several universities abroad. Academician Ljubo Berberovic is the author of a large number of academic and scientific publications from three scientific areas: Genetics Population, with an emphasis on human populations, Karyology and Cytotaxonomy, with an emphasis on studying freshwater fish and the history and philosophy of natural sciences.