16 Facts About Ivan Supek

Ivan Supek was a Croatian physicist, philosopher, writer, playwright, peace activist and humanist.

Ivan Supek later moved to Zagreb where during his high school days, he organized a local section of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia at his school, and was a member of the League until the Hitler-Stalin Pact.

Ivan Supek worked on problems of superconductivity, but ultimately his doctoral dissertation was on electrical conductivity in metals in low temperatures.

Ivan Supek was a proponent of total and unconditional nuclear disarmament, having already in 1944, fourteen months before the bombing of Hiroshima warned on the danger of misuse of atomic energy.

Ivan Supek was excluded from it in 1958 due to his disagreement with the Yugoslav Federal Commission for Nuclear Energy and his unwillingness to participate in a project for building the atomic bomb.

Ivan Supek was one of the founders of the international organization World without the Bomb.

Ivan Supek participated at the Philadelphia Congress of World Unity in 1976.

Ivan Supek formulated his famous ten humanistic principles, which were more or less repeated at every later peace summit and event.

Ivan Supek retired in 1985, but ever since continued his humanist work.

Ivan Supek founded a citizen association, Alijansa za trecu Hrvatsku.

Ivan Supek was a critic of globalisation and a proponent of the global justice movement.

Ivan Supek died on 5 March 2007, in his home in Zagreb, after a long illness.

Ivan Supek is among 24 famous Croats to be inducted in the Croatian Walk Of Fame.

In one of his last interviews in March 2006 Ivan Supek spoke about the famous and controversial meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in September 1941.

Beside his scientific and humanist work, Ivan Supek wrote numerous novels and plays, with themes spanning from philosophy, science fiction to politics.

Ivan Supek's novel is about the process against the physicist Robert Oppenheimer.