Opening of the exhibition on Momčilo St. Mokranjac

The exhibition titled “Momčilo St. Mokranjac – Chemist, Professor, Toxicologist”, organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Belgrade, the Museum of Krajina in Negotin and the SASA Gallery of Science and Technology, is set to open on Thursday, 16 April, at the SASA Gallery of Science and Technology on the occasion of 120 years of his birth.

Visitors will be able to see the original documents and photographs from professor Momčilo St. Mokranjac’s life and work, as a chemists of State Chemical Laboratory, head of Department for testing of precious metals of the National Bank of the state of that time, professor and director of the Institute of Toxicological Chemistry at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Belgrade, as well as relevant publications which include the first textbook on toxicological chemistry in Serbian “Toxicological Chemistry”(1949) written after the fashion of the French textbook literature. The goal of the exhibition is to shed light on his character and work, and remind the general public of another giant coming from the Mokranjac family.