Anton Peterlin was an internationally-acclaimed scientist, the author of more than 350 scholarly publications. For his research he received the highest Slovenia's scientific award - the France Prešeren award[?] in 1955, and the American Physical Society's Polymer Physics Prize[?] for 1972. A specialist in polymers, among other areas, Peterlin was a member of numerous scientific societies, including the American Physical Society, the Deutsche Kolloid Gesellschaft[?], the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft[?], and the Slovene Academy of Sciences and the Arts[?] (SAZU).
Anton Peterlin died in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 26 March, 1993.
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