没有什么比巴尔干地区最优秀儿子一生的经历和死后的传统更能体现这一地区沉重的过去和现在：他就是物理学家兼发明家尼古拉·特斯拉。
And there may be no clearer illustration of the region’s freighted past and present than the life and legacy of one of its exceptional sons: the physicist and inventor Nikola Tesla.