Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Serbian Academy of
Sciences and Arts
	Angular view of SANU facade in Belgrade, Serbia
Abbreviation	SANU / САНУ
Formation	1841; 183 years ago
Type	National academy
Purpose	Science, arts, academics
Headquarters	Knez Mihailova St. 35, ; Belgrade, Serbia
Location	44°49′5.4912″N 20°27′21.1176″E / 44.818192000°N 20.455866000°E;
President	Zoran Knežević
Budget (2020, planned)	€5.72 million
Website	www.sanu.ac.rs

The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Latin: Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica; Serbian: Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, romanized: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the most prominent academic institution in Serbia, founded in 1841 as Society of Serbian Letters (Serbian: Друштво србске словесности, ДСС, romanized: Društvo srbske slovesnosti, DSS).

The Academy's membership has included Nobel laureates Ivo Andrić, Leopold Ružička, Vladimir Prelog, Glenn T. Seaborg, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Peter Handke as well as, Josif Pančić, Jovan Cvijić, Branislav Petronijević, Vlaho Bukovac, Mihajlo Pupin, Nikola Tesla, Milutin Milanković, Mihailo Petrović-Alas, Mehmed Meša Selimović, Danilo Kiš, Paja Jovanović, Dmitri Mendeleev, Victor Hugo, Leo Tolstoy, Jacob Grimm, Antonín Dvořák, Henry Moore and many other scientists, scholars and artists of Serbian and foreign origin.^[2]

^ "ЗАКОН О БУЏЕТУ РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ ЗА 2020. ГОДИНУ" (PDF). parlament.gov.rs. Народна скупштина Републике Србије. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
^ "Members". Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

[budget2020-1] "ЗАКОН О БУЏЕТУ РЕПУБЛИКЕ СРБИЈЕ ЗА 2020. ГОДИНУ" (PDF). parlament.gov.rs. Народна скупштина Републике Србије. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

[2] "Members". Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

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