after the war, milanković was vice president of the serbian academy of sciences (1948–1958) and became a member of the commission 7 for celestial mechanics in the international astronomical union in 1948. in the same year, he became a member of the italian institute of paleontology. in november 1954, fifty years after receiving his original diploma, he received the golden doctor's diploma from the technical university of vienna. in 1955, he was also elected to the german academy of naturalists "leopoldina" in halle, saxony-anhalt.