High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolf Podgornik (born August 27, 1955 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian physicist. His field of research is the physics of soft matter, the physics of coulomb fluids and macromolecular interactions, the Lifshitz theory of dispersion interaction, the physics of membranes, polymers and polyelectrolytes and especially the physics of DNA as well as the physics of viruses. He discovered the line hexatic phase in the phase diagram of the concentrated DNA solutions. The line hexatic mesophase appears to be the preferred packing form of DNA in bacteriophages. He is the author of more than a hundred scientific papers and a coeditor of a book on "Electrostatic Effects in Soft Matter" (Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Les Houches, France, 1–13 October 2000, Series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 46 ), together with Christian Holm and Patrick Kekicheff. Together with D. Harries, J. DeRouchey, H. H. Strey,...