University of Silesia in Katowice

Birth date: 25 February 1906

Award date: 1 October 1977

USil Senate resolution date: 10 September 1977

Application date: 9 September 1977

Applying unit: Council of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

Chemist, professor at the University of Lviv, the University of Wrocław and Wrocław University of Science and Technology. Member (from 1952) and Chair of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1972–1977), member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. Director of the Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1968–1974), Director of the International Laboratory of High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures in Wrocław (from 1968). He received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Wroclaw (1969).