| Dinko Plenković was born in Zagreb on May 8, 1949, in a family with a rich scientific tradition. His father Zlatko (1917-2003) lectured on power electronics at the University of Zagreb and was awarded the highest republican award "Nikola Tesla", while his grandfather Josip Janda (1846-1896) was high school teacher and botanist. |
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Dinko's mother, uncle and grandmother. |
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Elementary school grades. |
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Dinko and his mother. |
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Dinko's high school class - V. gimnazija (then named "Bogdan Ogrizović") |
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| Dinko was profoundly impacted by Mrs. Fuss, his high school math teacher for 4 years. He was intensely grateful for her teaching. He once wrote to a friend: "We had excellent teachers and mentors, especially in math and physics. They were providing us with ever more challenging problems to solve. This is how we were training for the mathematics and physics competitions at class, school, city (Zagreb), state (Croatia) and country (Yugoslavia) level." In the 10th grade, Dinko won the first place both on the state and country competitions in physics. He also won the third place in the math competition at the country level. |
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Winning the city of Zagreb physics competition. |
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1st award at the former Yugoslavia national physics competition. |
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