Biographies of the founders
Prof. Edmund Romer was born on 18th February 1904 in Lviv. He was the son of Prof. Eugeniusz Romer, the most outstanding Polish geographer, and cartographer, a scientist of worldwide renown. His father was an ardent patriot engaged in pro-independence activities ...more
Prof. Tadeusz Zagajewski was born on 16th December 1912 in Lviv, in the family of a middle school teacher. In 1930, he graduated from the 10th Henryk Sienkiewicz Junior High School in Lviv, and in the same year, he started his studies at the Lviv University of Technology. ...more
Prof. Jerzy Siwiński was born on 21st November 1908 in Słodków (Turek County, Poznań Province) in an intelligentsia family. In 1918 he enrolled in a secondary school in Łęczyca, from which he graduated in 1927. From 1927 to 1932, he studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology ...more
Prof. Zdzisław Trybalski was born on 13th July 1922 in Jarosław in a family of a civil servant. In June 1939, he graduated from the Witkowski Mathematics and Physics High School in Jarosław. The outbreak of the war made him start working in the City Power Plant as a fitter. ...more
Prof. Stefan Węgrzyn was born on 20th May 1925 in Cracow. He completed primary and middle school in Borysław, where he also attended high school with a mathematics and physics profile. He passed his matriculation examination in 1943 within the education in the secret teaching mode. ...more
Prof. Henryk Kowalowski was born on 24 August 1925 in Cracow, in the family of the Silesian Uprisings participant, an officer of the Polish Army in active service. After finishing elementary school, he attended Jan III Sobieski Gymnasium. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he continued his education in ...more
Prof. Adam Macura was born on 31 March 1925 in Katowice. He completed primary and secondary school in Katowice, and then studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, obtaining the title of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Radiotechnics in 1951. ...more
