Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Latin: Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, Serbian Cyrillic: Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Serbian Latin: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (Serbian: Друштво србске словесности, ДСС, romanized: Društvo srbske slovesnosti, DSS).
Abbreviation | SANU / САНУ |
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Formation | 1841; 183 years ago (1841) |
Type | National academy |
Purpose | Science, arts, academics |
Headquarters | Knez Mihailova St. 35, Belgrade, Serbia |
Location | |
President | Zoran Knežević |
Budget (2020, planned[1]) | €5.72 million |
Website | www |
The Academy's membership has included Nobel laureates Ivo Andrić, Leopold Ružička, Vladimir Prelog, Glenn T. Seaborg, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Peter Handke as well as, Josif Pančić, Jovan Cvijić, Branislav Petronijević, Vlaho Bukovac, Mihajlo Pupin, Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milanković, Mihailo Petrović-Alas, Mehmed Meša Selimović, Danilo Kiš, Paja Jovanović, Dmitri Mendeleev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Jacob Grimm, Antonín Dvořák, Henry Moore and many other scientists, scholars and artists of Serbian and foreign origin.[2]