Academicians Milutin Milanković and Vojislav Mišković: Correspondence about Alfred Wegener and Wladimir Köppen

Abstract

© 2018, Cambridge Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved. This paper presents a part of the unpublished correspondence between Milutin Milankovi ć and Vojislav Mišković from the period 1924 to 1930. At the beginning of the correspondence, Mišković worked in the French observatory in Nice, while Milanković was in Belgrade. They discussed the PhD thesis of Mišković, his return to Belgrade, getting him a position at the University, founding and building of the Astronomical Observatory in Belgrade, Milanković‘s research, publishing of his papers, his acceptance speech in the Serbian Academy of Science, his encounters with other scientists, as well as the collaboration of Milanković with Alfred Wegener and Wladimir Köppen, and other topics. With the help of Mišković, Milanković wanted to better present Wegener’s and his own research in French scientific journals. Milanković was also very interested for publications of the Astronomical Observatory in Belgrade, where he had found data that he could use in his research.