Paskal Sotirovski

23 November 1927 in Vrben, today Mavrovo and Rostuša Municipality – d. 20 January 2003 in Paris, France) was a Macedonian astrophysicist, specializing in solar physics.

Sotirovski spent some years as a school teacher in Bela Crkva, but in 1950 he enrolled as a regular student at the Faculty of Philosophy and Department of Physics at the Ss.

After getting his PhD degree, Sotirovski became a member of the French National Center of Scientific Research, which is a great recognition of a scientist's work.

He was able to speak fluently few world languages: English, French, German, Russian, as well as his mother tongue Macedonian.

[2] In the 1990s Sotirovski established the foundation that bears his name and financially supports the young and talented Macedonian minds.