Zygmunt Klemensiewicz

Background

Klemensiewicz was born in KrakóWest His father, Robert, was a teacher of history and geography and a headmaster of a secondary school.

Career

Early in his career (working for Fritz Haber in Karlsruhe), he made a pioneering contribution to the development of the glass electrode. From 1892 the family lived in Lwów, where he finished polish gymnasium, and in the years of 1904-1908 had been studying chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the Lwów University. In the years 1913 - 1914, he worked with Marie Curie in Paris.

In 1920 - 1940, he was an ordinary professor of physics and electronics at the Lwów Polytechnic.

In years 1940 to 1942, he was in Kazakhstan (deported), then Iran, Egypt, and Great Britain (1944 till 1956). From 1956, he was a professor at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice.

He died, aged 76, in Gliwice.

Achievements

• Klemensiewicz was also an accomplished mountaineer and skier, author of the first Polish-language manual on mountain climbing (1913), co-founder and vice-president (1922–1939) of Polish Skiing Association (place:Polski Związek Narciarski).