Nikola Konjevic was born in Belgrade 1940. He graduated in 1963 physical chemistry at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the Belgrade University and obtained M.Sc. degree in physics in 1965 at the same university. From October 1965 until May 1968 he was a post graduate student at the Electrical Engineering Department of Liverpool University where he received Ph.D in 1968.

Main scientific contributions of prof. Konjevic are in the field of gas plasma spectroscopy. In particular the results of the study of influence of plasma parameters to the shape and shift of emitted spectral lines are of outstanding importance. Prof. N. Konjevic and his collaborators devoted 65 papers and 6 review articles to this field of plasma spectroscopy. These publications are well accepted by the scientific community and cited in a large number of publications. The so-called “Belgrade school of plasma spectroscopy” that was founded by Prof. N. Konjevic and his colleges are highly respectable and is one of several leading in the world.

Besides the interest for plasma spectroscopy, prof. Nikola Konjevic contributed to the field of laser physics. He was successfully working in the field of organic dye lasers, chemical laser (CO, HF) and several laser applications with particular interest for the field of atmospheric pollution monitoring.

Professor Konjevic was 13 times an invited speaker at international conferences; he is the associate editor of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer and one of the authors of important critical reviews published in J. Phys. Chemi. Ref. Data and Physics Reports. He has 98 papers published in international journals, 4 full-length contributions in books. His work was cited 1507 times without self-citations of any co-author. Many of his Ph.D. and Ms. students, his textbook on quantum electronics qualify him as a fine pedagogue. The complete work of prof. Nikola Konjevic qualifies him as one of the leading physicist today.

For the year 1999 the “Prof.Marko Jaric” Jury found that professor Nikola Konjevic made an important contribution to the world physics and handed him, on March 17, 2000, this most distinguished national award for physics.