Vladana Likar-Smiljanić, Date of Birth
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About Vladana Likar-Smiljanić
- Vladana Likar-Smiljanic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ?????-????????; born 18 July 1943, Belgrade) is a Serbian engineer, educator and book illustrator. In the former Yugoslavia, Likar-Smiljanic illustrated children’s books that were sold in hundreds thousands of copies.
- Her books were sold also in Spain, Italy, the United States, Germany, Soviet Union.
- Initially, she became well known for her page “Cica’s Corner” in a popular Yugoslav magazine for entertainment Politikin Zabavnik.
- Her first illustrations appeared in The Treasury of Children's Poems by Jova Jovanovic Zmaj.After her successful debut, Likar-Smiljanic illustrated more than twenty books that were almost as popular as her first book. She was collecting counting songs for the hide and seek game of many nations, and illustrated those in one of her favorites “Counting Songs”.
- Vladana both wrote and illustrated her last book “Princess Milly” that was devoted to her younger daughter Milce.
- Milce was a frightened little girl, and the stories of this book were weaved to encourage her to handle whatever situations she would encounter. Likar-Smiljanic's main profession was teaching and researching at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
- For her research, she was examining the properties of various materials, in particular their complex permeability and permittivity at high frequencies.
- She published quite a few papers in the prestigious international journals.
- Vladana is a coauthor of two textbooks in the area of microwave communications. Likar-Smiljanic's political work during Miloševic governance in Serbia is another aspect of her contribution to the society.
- It was noted by Human Rights Watch, and Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.She became a director of the computing center at the School of Electrical Engineering of Belgrade University in 2001, that was quite devastated at the time by the anti-university politics during the previous decade.
- She helped the computing center reach the world standard.Modern times of narrow professional specializations did not influence Vladana, she is persistent following the Da Vinci polymathic way (art+engineering+politics).
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