Svetozar "Toza" Popovic figured that he had slipped into obscurity in Belgrade, where he did pioneering work in physics decades ago. But the research professor in the Old Dominion Department of Physics was informed a few weeks ago that the Institute of Physics in Belgrade wants to set the record straight.
Since Popovic last worked at the institute - he came to the United States in 1990 - Belgrade has seen a lot of turmoil. The breakup of Yugoslavia, leaving Belgrade as the capital of Serbia, economic depravation and periods of armed conflict created impossible conditions at the institute. "With our country and our systems falling apart, in the process they lost a lot of projects," he said. "They had three or four directors..."
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