Andrija Mohorovicic & Mohorovicic crater - Prague , Czech Republic
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Andrija Mohorovicic (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian meteorologist and seismologist.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/19/2016
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He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovicic discontinuity and is considered as one of the founders of modern seismology.
Mohorovicic was born in Volosko, Opatija, where his father (also named Andrija), was a blacksmith, making anchors. The younger Andrija also loved the sea and married a captain's daughter, Silvija Vernic. They had four sons. Mohorovicic obtained his elementary education in his home town, then continued at the gymnasium of neighbouring Rijeka. He received his higher education in mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prague in 1875, where one of his professors was Ernst Mach. At 15, Mohorovicic knew Italian, English and French. Later he learned German, Latin and Ancient Greek.
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The memorial consists a bronze bust and bilingual text. The memorial is located at the courtyard of Klementinum (
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Chorvatský geofyzik, který roku 1910 objevil rozhraní mezi zemskou kurou a svrchním pláštem, studoval zde v Klementinu na Universite Karlove v Praze v letech 1875-1878. Andrija Mohorovicic 1857-1936. U príležitosti stého výrocí objevu venovaly tuto pametní desku O stotoj obljetnici odkrica plocu poslavljaju sveucilište u Zagrebu-Državni hidrometeorološki zavod-Hrvatski geološki institut-Národní knihovna Ceské republiky-Hrvatsko Ceško društvo“.
Mohorovicic crater
Mohorovicic is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the larger crater Doppler and the huge walled plain Korolev. To the southwest of Mohorovicic is a small lunar mare that has been named Lacus Oblivionis. Due south of it is an unnamed mountain that formed during the impact that created the South Pole-Aitken Basin.