Nikola TESLA (b. Smiljan, 28 June 10 July 1856 – d. New York, 7 January 1943)

Electrical engineer, physicist and inventor

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): Academy of Natural Sciences, corresponding member from 25 January 1894. Full member from 16 February 1937

Accession speech: Letter – statement. [A Dispatch without a Date]. Št.: SKA God. 46 (1936) 225–226. Delivered on 7 March 1937. (SKA God. 46 (1936) 141, 219, 225–226).

Biography and bibliography: NE 4 (M. Popović). – EJ 8 (V. Popović). – J. T. Ratzlaff & L. I. Anderson: Dr Nikola Tesla Bibliography. Palo Alto, CA 1979. – P. Dugić, B. Jovanović: Katalog Teslinih patenata. Belgrade 1987. – Lives and Work of Serbian Scientists 2 (1997) 22–67 [sa lit/bbl.].

Obituary: SAN God. 51 (1946) 146–147 (J. Radonić) i 52 (1948) 131 (V. Mišković).

Photograph: SANU–F 282, 282/1–8