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I’ve learned from http://portal.connect.znanost.org that Croatian academician Vladimir Paar was rumored to have influenced the hiring procedure at the Department of Physics of the University of Zagreb, in favor of his son Nils. How dare "they" do this? And I don’t question how dare they if it is not true, I ask how dare they if it is true. Doesn’t everyone understand the father-academician responsibilities, all his efforts to promote his son’s faculties? For instance, can anyone image how hard it was to name his son as Nils, almost a Serbian name, instead of Niels? Then comes the iconolatrous responsibility: Niels Bohr grew up in a family atmosphere most favorable to the development of his genius and he carried out his first and gold medal winning research in his father’s laboratory.

Moreover, a father’s academic responsibilities are a tradition in Paar family. As the story goes, when Vladimir was a freshman, his father came to the Department of Physics to contest his son’s grade on one particular exam: Vladimir got ‘very good’(4), not ‘excellent’ (5).

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