Pavle Savić (born 10.01.1909) - a Yugoslav physicist and chemist, member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 1971 president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Born in Solun. He graduated from the University of Belgrade (1932), where he taught until 1934. In 1934 — 39 he worked with I. Joliot-Curie at the Radium Institute (Paris), in 1945—46 —at the Institute of Physical Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences, in 1945-66 he was professor at the University of Belgrade and in 1947 — 66 director of the Physico-Chemical Institute at the university. He was the founder and director of the B. Kidrič Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Vinča.
His work was in nuclear physics, nuclear chemistry, low-temperature physics and high-pressure physics. Together with I. Joliot-Curie he discovered in 1938 the first product of the fission of the uranium nucleus (lanthanum). He discovered one of the isotopes of xenon. Together with H. Halban and L. Kowarski he determined the parameters of the fission of the uranium nucleus. He developed methods of obtaining very low temperatures. He established the geochemical cycle of uranium compounds. He studies the effect of high pressures and temperature on the structure of matter (in particular at absolute zero). Since 1960 he has been developing a theory of the origin of the rotation of celestial bodies.
Honorary member of a number of academies of sciences, including foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1958). M. V. Lomonosov Gold Medal (1982).