Digital legacy 'Milutin Milanković"

Abstract

There are important collections of books, photos, documents and other material related to the people from the past that played once important role in science or had the key contributions to science. This material is the most important part of legacies of this people. We decided to present in digital form the legacy of Milutin Milanković, one of the most important Serbian scientists of all time. Milutin Milanković (1879-1958) was geophysicist, theoretical mechanist and civil engineer, but he is best known for his theory of ice ages. A large part of printed materials, particularly books and scientific papers, related to him is already collected and partly digitized. We are working on this presentation and archive base together with the Society Milutin Milanković, which owns several thousand digital images of various items related to Milanković: photos, letters, diplomas, patents and other documents. We expect that the Digital legacy with Milanković’s presentation will be operational till the end of this year. We hope that this type of Internet presentation will help the general audience and scientists to better understand not only the work and life of this important man but also the time and circumstance in which he lived.