Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

Graduate and – since 1948 – assistant at Warsaw University of Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering. One of the first employees of the Department of Vibration Research Polish Academy of Sciences (1952) in the field of acoustics. At IPPT PAN since the Vibration Research Department was incorporated into the Institute, until his tragic death in the mountains in Hindu Kush. He received the doctoral degree in 1960, habilitation degree in 1967 and professor degree in 1975. Head of the Department of Physical Acoustics (1961-1973), IPPT deputy director for research (1973-1977). Most of his research was devoted to methods of acoustic measurement, relations between parameters of acoustic fields and mechanical properties of solids and fluids, and also the applications of piezoelectric transducers. Author of 2 books, 60 publications and 10 patents. He became a leading authority among the international community of acousticians.

He was graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Wrocław (1956), 1960 – doctoral degree, 1965 – habilitation, 1974 – professor. Assistant in the Institute of Organic Chemistry in Wrocław (1955-1956), head of the laboratory in the Institute of Synthetic Fibers in Jelenia Góra and Gorzów Wlkp. (1956-1958), head of Polymer Physic Laboratory in the Institute of General Chemistry in Warsaw (1959-1967). Employee of IPPT PAN. He created the school of polymer physics in IPPT PAN in the field of fundamental research on structure formation and properties of polymers. Lectured at the Warsaw University, Department of Physic (1967-1969). He was visiting professor in the Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University and in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Palermo. Scientific authority in the field of structure formation and properties of polymers in technological processes, in particular in processes of fiber formation. Author books and scientific publications (over 200). Member of European Physical Society, The Society of Rheology, International Committee of Rheology, International Society for the Interaction between Mathematics and Mechanics, Polish Chemical Society, Polish Physical Society, Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Member of the editorial committees of Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Rheology, Fiber World, Fibres in Eastern Europe. Honoured with the S.G. Smith Medal of the Manchester Textile Institute, the Jan Zawidzki Medal of the Polish Chemical Society, Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Golden Cross of Merit.