Prof. Stanisław TURSKI
Birth date: 15.05.1906
Date of death: 03.01.1986
Award date: 02.10.1975
UŚ Senate resolution date: 27.06.1975
Application date: 09.06.1975
Applying unit: Council of the UŚ Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
Mathematician, professor at the Jagiellonian University (1929–1939), organiser and the first rector of the Gdańsk University of Technology (1949–1951), the Warsaw University of Technology (1949–1951), a professor at and a rector of the University of Warsaw (1951–1969). Chair of the Polish Society of Cybernetics. Prisoner of Nazi concentration camps in Sachsenhausen and Dachau (1939–1941). Honoured with the highest Polish and foreign decorations: the Officier of the Legion of Honour; the Commander, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland