Sir Harold Kroto, a recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, will deliver a lecture at the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) as part of the Ruđer Josip Bošković Lecture Series. The lecture, entitled Carbon in Nano and Outer Space, will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 15, 2011, in the Auditorium of Wing III of the RBI.

Dr. Stefanie D. Krämer, head of the Pharmacology Division of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), will deliver a lecture at the Ruđer Bošković Institute on July 5, 2011, starting at 12 noon, entitled Small Animal Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in Basic and Preclinical Research.

On July 7 and 8, 2011, the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) is organizing an event for young researchers entitled Three Types of Scientific Meetings. During the two days of meetings, 150 young researchers will present the results of their investigations in biology, molecular medicine, physics, chemistry, nanosciences, environment and oceanology through popular scientific lectures and posters.

he 300,000th paper has recently been published in the Croatian Scientific Bibliography, CROSBI. This valuable information service allows scientists to enter data on their published works that can then be used for various purposes. It also displays the current bibliography of a scientist on his personal website and provides an always up-to-date bibliography of works from a given research project or institution. It was launched in 1997, with the support of what was then the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Dr. Darko Orešković of the Laboratory for Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology, Division of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute, and Prof. Dr. Marijan Klarica of the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, published a review article entitled "Development of hydrocephalus and classical hypothesis of cerebrospinal fluid hydrodynamics: facts and illusions" in the distinguished journal Progress in Neurobiology (IF=9.14), which is among the top 5% of journals in the field of neuroscience. 

The Ruđer Bošković Institute invites you to attend a lecture by Prof. Diethard Tautz, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, entitled "The House Mouse as a Model System for Evolutionary Research", to be held on July 1, 2011, in the Auditorium of Wing III, starting at 1 p.m.

Dr. Jasminka Popović, a scientific associate, and Martina Vrankić, a scientific assistant, of the Laboratory for Thin Films, Division of Materials Physics, Ruđer Bošković Institute, received poster prizes at the 44th course of the International School of Crystallography: The Power of Powder Diffraction.

One of the first FP7 projects of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the CLUNA (CLUstering phenomeNA in nuclear physics) Project, currently on the brink of completion, has been recognized by the European Commission for quality research and successful implementation of the project tasks. The CLUNA Project is being conducted in the Laboratory for Nuclear Physics and the Laboratory for Ionic Beam Interactons of the Division of Experimental Physics.

RBI organic chemists Dr. Zoran Džolić and Prof. Dr. Mladen Žinić of the Laboratory for Supramolecular and Nucleoside Chemistry, in collaboration with Spanish colleagues from the Department of Chemical Physics, University of Vigo, have published an article in the world's leading journal of general chemistry, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (IF 11.829).

On Sunday, May 29, in Dubrovnik, opening ceremonies were held for the international symposium From Ruđer Bošković to Today: Contribution of Croatian Scientists to the World Scientific Heritage, under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, Jadranka Kosor, to be held from May 29 to June 2. Those assembled at the opening ceremonies were greeted by Dr. Danica Ramljak, Director General of the Ruđer Boković Institute; the Mayor of Dubrovnik, Andro Vlahušić; and the Minister of Science, Dr. Radovan Fuchs. The Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Luka Bebić, opened the symposium.