The First Yugoslav National Committee for Astronomy

Although Serbia, as a member of the Allied Powers and a World War I winner, was one of the founding members of the International Research Council in the context of which the International Astronomical Union (IAU) was established in Brussels in the summer of 1919, it joined IAU, within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, only in 1935. The formal representative of Yugoslavia at this assembly was Prof. Vojislav Mi\vsković, a member of the Serbian Royal Academy and Director of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade. Shortly after the assembly, the first Yugoslav National Committee for Astronomy was established. Its president was Prof. Milutin Milanković, a member of the Serbian Royal Academy and one of the greatest Serbian scientists.