Eduard Prugovečki (March 19, 1937 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist and mathematician of Croatian-Romanian descent.

Prugovečki was born in Craiova, Romania to a Romanian mother and Croatian father, and he obtained early education in Bucharest before his family was forced to relocate to Zagreb in 1951. He finished high school there and proceeded to study physics at the University of Zagreb, getting his diploma in 1959. He joined the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Institute "Ruđer Bošković" in Zagreb where he worked as a research assistant until 1961.

In 1961 as the best student of his generation he was sent to Princeton University, New Jersey to prepare his doctoral thesis, and he earned his PhD there in 1964. In 1965 he moved to Canada where he first spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Edmonton, Alberta, and then a year as a lecturer at the University of Alberta.

He taught physics at the University of Toronto from 1967 to 1997. In 1974 he spent one year as a visiting professor at the Centre National de Recherches Scientifique in Marseilles, France. Around 1986 he resigned from his membership in the International Association of Mathematical Physicists.

In 1998 he retired to live in Honey Harbour , Ontario. Dr. Prugovečki passed away at the age of 66 in Lake Chapala, Mexico.

Literature

• Eduard Prugovečki, Quantum Mechanics in Hilbert Space, Academic Press 1971, ISBN 0125660502
• Edward Prugovečki, Stochastic Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Spacetime, Kluwer 1984, ISBN 902771617X
• Edward Prugovečki, Quantum Geometry, Kluwer 1992
• Edward Prugovečki, Principles of Quantum General Relativity, World Scientific 1995, ISBN 981022138X
• Janko Herak (editor), Distinguished Croatian Scientists in America, Part Two, ISBN 953-97325-1-4

Weblinks

• Biography at University of Toronto