Background
Andrzej Waksmundzki was born in the village of Waksmund, in Nowy Targ County as the son of a farmer.
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Andrzej Waksmundzki
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In 1935 he took his Master of Science in Chemistry at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he presented his Doctor of Philosophy thesis in 1939.
Career
Simultaneously Doctor Waksmundzki was involved in the local anti-nazi underground for which he was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1942. The remainder of the war he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross Rosen and Mauthausen concentration camps. After the war he started organizing academic life in Poland which was effectively destroyed by the Nazi and Soviet occupiers during these years.
Doctor Waksmundzki organized the Chair of Physical Chemistry in the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, he was appointed Professor Extraordinarius in 1950 and Professor Ordinarius ten years later.
Between 1967 and 1970 he worked as visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. During his academic career, Doctor Waksmundzki published at least 353 scientific papers.
Andrzej Waksmundzki died in Lublin, Poland on December 14, 1998 at the age of 88.
Achievements
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Andrzej Waksmundzki has been awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, three honorary doctorates from the Marie-Curie University, the Lublin School of Medicine and the Technical University of Lublin, as well as two state awards for his achievements in the field of chromatography and for his contribution to the technology of luminophores.
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