Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian: Црногорска академија наука и умјетности, Crnogorska Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti, CANU) is the most important scientific institution of Montenegro. It was founded in 1973 as Crnogorsko Društvo za Nauku i Umjetnost (Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts) and was renamed in 1976. It currently has 42 members (academicians), divided in 3 branches: natural sciencies, humanities and arts.

Its membership has included:

• Painters Vojo Stanić , Miloš Vušković and Aleksandar Prijić,
• Oscar-winning animator Dušan Vukotić,
• Writers Mihailo Lalić, Radovan Zogović and Ćamil Sijarić,
• Art historian Pavle Mijović
• Physicist Dragiša Ivanović.

List of presidents of the Montenegrin Academy of Arts and Sciences:

• Historian Branko Pavićević (born 1922) (1973-1981),
• Economist Branislav Šoškić (born 1922) (1981-1985),
• Economist Mirčeta Ðurović (born 1924) (1985-1989),
• Surgeon Dragutin Vukotić (born 1924) (1989-2001), and
• Engineer Momir Ðurović (born 1941) (since 2002)

Members

Department of Life Sciences

Regular members

• Radomir Bulatović (General Secretary of CANU)
• Momir Đurović (President of CANU)
• Milojica Jaćimović (Secretary of Department)
• Gordan Karaman
• Vlado Lubarda
• Milorad Mijušković
• Ljubiša Stanković
• Milinko Šaranović
• Vučina Šćekić
• Vladimir Vojovodić
• Dragan Vukotić
• Petar Vukoslavčević

Extraordinary members

• Slobodan Backović
• Perko Vukotić
• Svetomir Ivanović

Correspondent members

• Ljubomir Berberović
• Milan Dragović
• George Duka
• Boris Gusev
• Farudin Hodža
• Dušan Kosović
• Veselin Perić
• Ljubiša Rakić
• Viktor Antonovič Sadovničij
• Ivo Šlaus
• Felix Unger

Department of Social Sciences

Regular members

• Miomir Dašić
• Mirčeta Đurović
• Zoran Lakić
• Dragutin Leković
• Branko Pavićević
• Vlado Strugar
• Branislav Šoškić
• Mijat Šuković (Vice-President of CANU)
• Petar Vlahović
• Dragan K. Vukčević (Secretary of Department)
• Momčilo Zečević

Extraordinary members

• Đorđe Borozan
• Milica Kostić
• Dušan Martinović
• Dragan Radonjić

Correspondent members

• Ljubiša Adamovič
• Tatjana Ivanovna Alekseeva
• Sima Ćirković
• Peter Drent
• Milorad Ekmečić
• Džangir Abasović Kerimov
• Evangelos Mucopulos
• Evgenij Ljvovič Nemirovski
• Slobodan Perović
• Eugen Pusić

Department of Arts

Regular members

• Žarko Đurović
• Dragan Karadžić
• Slobodan Kalezić
• Branislav Ostojić (Secretary of Department)
• Branko Popović
• Vojislav Stanić
• Radonja Vešović
• Rajko Vujičić
• Čedo Vuković

Extraordinary members

• Anka Burić
• Olga Perović
• Manja Radulović-Vulić

Correspondent members

• Miodrag Dado Đurić
• Cvetan Grozdanov
• Radomir Ivanović
• Petar Omčikus
• Asim Peco
• Stevan Raičković

See also

• Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts

External links

• http://www.canu.cg.yu/

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