Iwo Bialynicki-Birula
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Professor of Physics
Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw
&
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Warsaw University
Hoza 69, 00-681 Warsaw
Poland
Career
Iwo Bialynicki-Birula was born in Warsaw,
Poland, on the 14th of June, 1933. In the years 1949-1952 he
attended Technical Vocational High School (Mechanical Engineering). He obtained
Master degree (1956), Ph.D. (1959) and D.Sci. (1962) in Theoretical Physics at
the Warsaw University. He has been a full professor at the Warsaw University
since 1966 and at the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1980 and a visiting
professor at many different universities and institutions in the USA, USSR and
Germany. He has been elected Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976),
Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (1985)
and Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Knowledge in Krakow (1990)
and has been awarded the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Prize of the Polish Academy of
Sciences (1975), the Medal of the Commision for National Education of Poland
(1976), the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Prize (New York, 1980) and the
Alexander von Humboldt Award (Bonn, 1994). He published over hundred and sixty
PAPERS and ten books.
Personal Life
Married to Zofia Wiatr (also a physics
professor) in 1956 with two children: Piotr (1958) and Iwona (1978). His many
hobbies include: bicycling, bridge, chess, jogging and swimming.