Angel Balevski

He graduated from the Brno Technical School in the Czech Republic in 1934 and began his professional career as a metallurgical engineer. Later he was a professor at many universities in Europe. Balewski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school of metal science and technology. He succeeded in designing a machine for the hot pressing of non-ferrous metals. He developed an original method of producing iron from Bulgarian raw materials in a rotary drum furnace. Together with Ivan Dimov he developed a method of injection molding, which was a novelty in the world foundry technology and was protected by more than 100 patent documents in Bulgaria and abroad. He was the author or co-author of more than seven monographs and academic textbooks.

Chairman (President) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1968 to 1988.

Balewski was elected as an honorary and foreign member of academies and scientific societies in many countries, including being elected as a foreign member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1971) and as an honorary member of the International Academy of Engineering. In 1988 he was co-chairman of the International Academy of Sciences in Munich, and in 1971 he was elected co-chairman of the Pugwash movement of scientists for peace. For his achievements and contributions to science, Angel Balewski was the recipient of several prizes both in Bulgaria and abroad. In particular, he was twice awarded the Bulgarian Dimitrov Prize, as well as the Order of Academic Palms and the Lomonosov Grand Gold Medal of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples