Milan Vukcevich

Milan Radoje Vukcevich ( Vukčević ) ( born March 11, 1937 in Belgrade, † 10 May 2003 in Shaker Heights ) was a Yugoslav Grandmaster for chess composition, strong chess player and become a scholar.

Chess

Vukcevich was a strong game players. He represented his native Yugoslavia in 1960 at the Chess Olympiad in Leipzig and took his team to third place behind the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1975, he also reached the third place in the championship of the United States in Oberlin.

Milan Vukcevich received in 1958 the title of International Master of chess and 1988 the Grand Master title for chess composition. A composition Vukcevichs be found here. In 1998, he was inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.

Private

Vukcevich Settled in the 1960s in the United States, where he lived in northern Ohio. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned his doctorate in metallurgy. At Case Western Reserve University Vukcevich worked as an assistant and worked as a researcher for General Electric, where he rose to become chief scientist later. He made ​​significant theoretical research in the field of illumination He was most recently a professor at the University of Arizona. On the consequences of the complications of a tumor that had metastasized, Vukcevich died on 10 May 2003.