Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

Graduate of the Jagiellonian University (UJ) and AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow; he received his first doctorate under the supervision of Prof. W. Olszak in 1949, the habilitation degree in 1950. In 1952, he became associate professor and in 1958, professor. Since 1969, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). In 1953-1991, he worked at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (IPPT) and since 1956, he headed the Laboratory of Mechanical Vibration at the Department of Vibration Research and the Laboratory of Theoretical Machine Construction (since 1965), later called the Department of Mechanical Systems (1969-1977). Member of many scientific councils, including the Scientific Council of AGH Institute of Mechanics and Vibroacoustics. He was a versatile scientist with specific interest in: theoretical mechanics, vibration theory, machine dynamics, vibration technics, reliability, materials durability, materials engineering, diagnostics, systems engineering, cybernetics, praxeology and the study of science. Author of Nonlinear Vibration and Tribology study. Author of 265 articles, co-author of 7 monographs, editor of 5 monographs, and since 1963, editor-in-chief of Zagadnienia Drgań Nieliniowych (Nonlinear Vibration Problems), supervisor of over 30 doctoral dissertations. Member of scientific committees and societies. Organizer of national and international conferences. Honorary Doctor (Honoris Causa) of AGH in Cracow and the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

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.