CroatiaPitanje 14 · Culture and customs
The famous Croatian mathematician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist who gave his name to the Institute that is the leading scientific institution in the Republic of Croatia in the natural and biomedical sciences and in marine and environmental research is:
In the exam (Croatian)
Poznati hrvatski matematičar, astronom, geodet i fizičar po kome je nazvan Institut koji predstavlja stožernu znanstvenu ustanovu u Republici Hrvatskoj u području prirodnih i biomedicinskih znanosti te istraživanju mora i okoliša je:
- aJuraj HaulikJuraj Haulik
- bRuđer BoškovićRuđer BoškovićCorrect answer
- cLavoslav RužičkaLavoslav Ružička
- dIvan VučetićIvan Vučetić
Why?
It is Ruđer Bošković, a scientist from Dubrovnik in the 18th century. The »Ruđer Bošković« Institute in Zagreb, the largest Croatian scientific institute, is named after him.
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Source of the questions: Pravilnik o načinu provjere poznavanja hrvatskog jezika i latiničnog pisma, hrvatske kulture i društvenog uređenja u postupcima stjecanja hrvatskog državljanstva, Annex 1 (Narodne novine 6/2021). No official answers are published: the answers, the explanations and the English translations are ours (made with AI). This site is not official and is not affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior (Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova). The exam itself is in Croatian.
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