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Professor Naim H. Afganon his 60th birthday

PRO~SSOR Naim Afgan, who was born on 15 June
1929 in Banja Luka, Yugoslavia, celebrated his 60thbirthday last year. We wish on this occasion toapplaud his contribution to the field of heat and masstransfer and express our felicitations.
Professor Afgan received his B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Zagreb in1957. He was one of those students who took thebasic course in thermodynamics from Professor FranBo~njakovir, while he was professor and rector of theUniversity of Zagreb. Perhaps the class lectures ofProfessor Bo~njakovi6 influenced him to devote mostof his engineering career to areas related mostly tothermodynamics. After graduation, he joined theBoris Kidric Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Vin~a,near Belgrade, as a young research engineer. He wasa member of the crew led by Academician Pavle Savic,
widely known also for his work with Marie Curie,
and that group initiated the nuclear research programin Yugoslavia. In 1960-61 he joined the Reactor Engineering Division of the Argonne National Laboratory
as an affiliate of the U.S.A. International Program ofdeveloping the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Being
associated with Paul Lottes, John Marchattere, Bart
Hoglund and Micke Petrich, the Argonne's pioneerof boiling heat transfer, he began his professional
career in boiling. In 1965 he received his doctorate fora thesis entitled "Boiling heat transfer and critical heatflux" from the University of Belgrade. In parallel tohis employment with the Boris Kidric Institute ofNuclear Sciences, where he now serves as Science
Advisor, he became an Associate Professor at theUniversity of Belgrade in 1970 and a full Professor at
the University of Zagreb in 1980.
Professor Afgan's research activities are mainly inthe areas of boiling heat transfer, thermalhydraulics ofnuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle policy and energy
development in developing countries. So far he has
published over 150 papers and reports in the above
areas. In recognition of his work he obtained theBelgrade October Award for scientific achievements
in 1976, the Boris Kidric Institute Annual Award fortechnical achievements in 1978, the Fellowship Awardof the International Centre for Heat and Mass Trans-1045
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fer in 1983, and the 20th Anniversary ICHMT Awardin 1988.
Professor Afgan is a well-known teacher both in
the laboratory and in the classroom. His teaching activities include courses, such as: irreversible thermodynamics, nuclear reactor heat transfer, nuclear
reactor design, steam generators, nuclear fuel cycle,
thermal power systems and measurement techniquesin heat transfer. Many of his students are now professors at major universities in Yugoslavia andabroad, some are well-established R&D directors inindustry and some of them hold positions with various
government agencies.
He has been very active as the editor of the proceedings from the symposia and seminars organizedby the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (22 so far), also the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletinof the ICHMT and International Archives of Heat andMass Transfer and the Yugoslav journal Nuklearna
TehnologUa (Nuclear Technology). He is a member ofthe Advisory Board of the International Journal ofExperimental Thermal and Fluid Science, a memberof the Advisory Committee of Nuclear Europe and amember of the Scientific Council of the Revue Generale d'Thermique. Professor Afgan has devoted a lotof time to international activities. He is one of thefounders of the International Centre for Heat andMass Transfer (ICHMT). He served as a memberof the Scientific Council of the centre and Scientific
Secretary until 1986. Presently he is the Secretary General of the ICHMT. He gave invited lectures at many
universities and research centres around the globe. Healso served as the IAEA and UNESCO expert inEgypt in 1969 and 1979 and is currently the ProjectManager for the UNESCO course on Energy Engineering. For many years Professor Afgan served asconsultant and a member of the Nuclear Energy Commission of Yugoslavia and a government member ofthe Commission of Technology Development andAssessments.
Although very busy with teaching, research andmany international cooperations, Professor Afgan isa devoted husband and father. He spends many weekends with his wife Bahrija at their summer house on
the Adriatic Coast where they also entertain many
international visitors. His daughter Aida, MD, specializing in nuclear medicine, and her family join themfor long weekends.
On behalf of Professor Afgan's students, colleagues
and friends all over the world, we wish him a very
happy birthday and many more productive years.
JOVICAR. RIZM6
On behalf of the Yugoslav Societyof Heat Transfer Engineers