Zlatko Tesanovic

Zlatko Boško Tešanović (August 1, 1956 – July 26, 2012) was a Yugoslav-American theoretical condensed-matter physicist, whose work focused mainly on the high-temperature superconductors (HTS) and related materials.

His particular research interests were in the areas of theoretical condensed matter physics, revolving primarily around iron- and copper-based high-temperature superconductors, quantum Hall effects (QHE), superconductivity and strongly correlated electron materials. His broad knowledge of condensed matter physics, his deep understanding of the effects of strong magnetic fields, and his talent for exposition were influential.

Biography He was born in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia (present Bosnia and Herzegovina). In 1979, he received a B.Sci. in physics from the University of Sarajevo. He then received a Fulbright Fellowship and attended the University of Minnesota, where he earned a Ph.D. in physics in 1985. He became a naturalized American citizen.

He worked as a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy in Baltimore from July 1987 until his death on July 26, 2012. Previously, he served as director of the TIPAC Theory Center at JHU. Lei Xing (Jacob Haimson Professor, Stanford University) Igor F. Herbut (Professor, Simon Fraser University) Anton Andreev (Associate Professor, University of Washington) Sasha Dukan (Professor and Chair of Physics, Goucher College) Oskar Vafek (Associate Professor, Florida State University and NHMFL) Ashot Melikyan (Editor, Physical Review B) Andrés Concha (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard SEAS) Valentin Stanev (Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory) Jian Kang (Grad student, Johns Hopkins University)

Works He gave more than 100 invited talks at scientific meetings, including major international conferences. He has authored and published more than 125 scientific papers, and a book entitled: