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1994. For the first time Horst Ullrich (1931–2006) participated by the talk “On
Modern Cosmology”, as an important German scientist whose fields of interest
were span from experimental nuclear and particle physics (CERN, SIN/
PSI) to cosmology and history of science at the University of Karlsruhe. He
helped and successfully promoted international and interdisciplinary collaboration
between University of Zagreb and the SIN/PSI in Switzerland that has
never been done so well before him, especially for the period of 1980–2000.
For the 4th DPF he submitted also a lecture on the Einstein’s model of stationary
universe against the Hubble’s dynamical model. “Philosophy of Time” as
the main theme was addressed to the 9th DFP, 2000, when 7 physicists (IRB,
Faculty of Sciences Zagreb, FER, and University of Lausanne) attended as
never before in the history of the symposia, participating with their talks on
fascinating topics on time. Among them, an outstanding Croatian scientist in
theoretical particle physics Dubravko Tadić (1934–2003) deserves mention.
His lecture “Time in Contemporary Physics, an Introduction”, was a review
over basic concepts and aspects of time direction in the classical physics, and
time reversal and its violation in contemporary physics of particles and fields.
A brilliant introducing of “Ecology” as the new discipline by the 4th DFP,
1995, is connected with a famous Croatian biologist, ecologist and theologian
Milan Meštrov (1929–2010) whose argumentation for the scope and problems
of modern ecology, together with an excursion and lecture “Jezero Vrana na
otoku Cresu“ (“Vrana Lake on the Cres Island”), were both marked as the
great change in evolution of the symposia. A distinguished American philosopher
Eugene Ryan (1926–2006), researcher of Greek, Renaissance, Italian,
and, above all, Croatian philosophy, participated remarkable 9 times (above
all other foreign participants) in continuity from the 5th DPF in 1996 to the
14th DFP in 2005 (with an exclusion of the 7th DPF, 1998). He contributed to
the DPFs with 8 brilliant talks on the issues of Petrić’s philosophy, once with
a talk inside the main theme, and with 2 presentations of the books. Ryan’s
last visit to the “happy town” was in 2005, during the 14th DFP dedicated to
the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. His paper on
the reflections on light and time by Petrić and in the 1905 Einstein’s paper on
electrodynamics of moving bodies, was published as the opening article in the
journal Synthesis Philosophica 42 (2006) as well as in the proceedings Theory
of Relativity and Philosophy (HFD, 2009). Ryan’s collected works on Petrić’s
philosophy entitled as Essays on Frane Petrić’s Philosophy are going on to be
published by the HFD in Croatia. A book is being prepared in Croatian by the
6-member editorial board, and a project is conducting by P. Barišić. Overall
data which do not talk (Poincaré) with statements were arose from personal
notes recorded by the author of this paper, who was a singular participant who
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