JOVAN BELIĆ Agriculture engineer; (b. Valjevo, 23 November 1909 – d. Belgrade, 6 October 1997)

university professor: Faculty of Agriculture in Belgrade, full professor (1954−1975); dean (1957−1958)

Membership of SASA: Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: corresponding member from 30 January 1958; full member from 16 December 1965 − Secretary of the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics from 25 October 1974 until 27 November 1981; SASA Presidency member from 22 November 1985 until his death

Accession speech: Zootechnics in Contemporary Agriculture and its Development in Serbia. Posebna izdanja/SANU. Spomenica. 402:30 (1967) 19−26. Delivered on 28 April 1966

Biographies, bibliographies: Godišnjak/SANU 68 (1963) 213−216; 72 (1970) 565−566; 74 (71) 528−529; 75 (71) 606; 77 (1972) 788−790; 85 (1979) 197−204; 97 (1991) 343−346.

Membership of SASA boards: Board for Rural Issues; Board for the Natural History Museum, Board for the Museum of Agriculture; Interdepartmental Board for Kopaonik related issues

Awards and recognitions: the 7^th July Award (1966); plaque and certificate: Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Gesellschaft (1976); international award for Zootechnics Uovo d’oro, Verona (1982); Order of Labour with red ribbon (1965)

Obituary: Godišnjak/SANU 104 (1998) 577−578 (V. Pantić)

Photograph: SANU-F 451