Iwo Białynicki-birula

Biography

"Iwo BiaÅ‚ynicki-Birula was born in Warsaw, Poland, on the 14th of June, 1933. In the years 1949–1952 he attented Technical Vocational High Scool (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, USRR 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 SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Prize of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1975), the Medal of Commision for National Education of Poland (1976), the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Prize (New York, 1980), the Alexander von Humboldt Award (Bonn, 1994) and the Foundation for Polish Science Award (Warsaw 2014) He published over hundred and sixty papers and ten books."

Research Interest

Condensed Matter Physics