Imagine being a scientist in Serbia. It means smuggling equipment in your trouser pockets, losing your best colleagues to Western Europe, and watching helplessly as their jobs are taken up by political appointees. For three decades, Milan Kurepa was professor of physics at the University of Belgrade. But he resigned in 1998 after watching his once-thriving lab become what he calls “a workplace of ghosts” as, one by one, colleagues and students fled the country. Rather than suffer in silence, he agreed to speak to Â鶹´«Ã½. Gillian Sandford travelled to Belgrade to hear his story.
You’re a known critic of the Milosevic regime. Have you…
