19 апреля 2007 года после трех лет тяжелой борьбы с раком мозга возрасте всего 67 лет скончался один из наиболее выдающихся астрофизиков XX века – Богдан Пачиньский.

8 февраля 1940 — 19 апреля 2007

Краткая биография (извините, что на английском)

Born: Wilno, Poland, February 8, 1940  
M.A. in Astronomy, Warsaw University, 1962  
Ph.D. in Astronomy, Warsaw University, 1964  
Docent Degree in Astronomy, Warsaw University, 1967  
  
Appointments:  
  
1959 - 1962: Warsaw University Observatory, technical assistant  
1962 - 1982: Institute of Astronomy, renamed in 1975 N. Copernicus  
             Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw  
    1962 - assistant  
    1964 - research associate  
    1969 - assistant professor  
    1974 - associate professor  
    1979 - professor  
1982 - 1989: professor, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton  
             University   
1989 - present: Lyman Spitzer Jr. professor of astrophysics, Department of   
             Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University  
  
Visiting Positions:  
  
1962 - 1963: Astronomical Assistant, Lick Observatory, University of California   
1964 (two months): visiting observer, Beograd Astronomical Observatory,  
             Yugoslavia   
1965 (two months): visiting observer, Haute Provance Observatory, France  
1966 (one month): visitor, Meudon Observatory, France   
1968 - 1969: Visiting Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado   
1970 (two months): visitor, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge,  
             England   
1973 (one month): visitor, International Center for Theoretical Physics in  
             Trieste   
1973 (three months): Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology  
1974 (one month): Visiting Scientist, Princeton University Observatory and the  
             Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton   
1975 - 1976: Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of  
             Technology   
1977 (one month): visitor, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge,  
             England   
1976, 1977, 1978 (one month visits): Visiting Astronomer, Princeton University  
             Observatory and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton  
1979 (three months): Visiting Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of  
             California, Berkeley  
1980, 1981 (two months visits): Visiting Astronomer, Princeton University  
             Observatory and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton   
1981 - 1982: Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of  
             Technology   
1989 (4 months): visiting professor at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard   
             University   
1994 (3 months): visiting scientist at the Institut d'Astrophysique (CNRS) in   
             Paris, France  
1995 (3 months): visiting scientist at the National Observatory in Tokyo, Japan  
1967 - 1980: approximately 10 short visits to the Astronomical Council of the   
             USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow   
  
Professional Societies:  
  
 Member, Polish Astronomical Society, 1961 - present  
 Member, International Astronomical Union, 1967 - present  
 Member, American Astronomical Society, 1969 - present  
 Member, Royal Astronomical Society, 1976 - 1977  
 Member, Polish Physical Society, 1978 - present  
 Member, American Physical Society, 1982 - 1986  
  
 Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher LEOPOLDINA, 1974 - present  
 Corresponding Member, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1976 - 1991  
 Member, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1991 - present  
 Associate Member, Royal Astronomical Society, 1977 - present  
 Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences, 1984 - present  
  
Awards and Honours:  
  
1979: Invited Discourse, XVII General Assembly of the International  
         Astronomical Union, Montreal   
1980: Polish State Prize in Science, Warsaw   
1981: K. Schwarzschild Lecture, Astronomische Gesellshaft, Innsbruck  
1982: Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation Award, New York   
1985: Medaille de l'Adion, Nice   
1987: The Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society   
1992: Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics  
1995: Morris Loeb Lectures on Physics at Harvard  
1996: George Darwin Lecture to the Royal Astronomical Society in London  
1996: Russel Marker Lecture series at Penn State University  
1996: Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science  
1997: Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences  
1998: The Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Medal and Memorial Lecture, University of   
         Texas  
1999: The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in London  
1999: Sackler Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley  
1999: Thomas Gold Lectureship at Cornell University  
1999: The Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship, University of Arizona  
2000: Rossi Prize of the High Energy Div. of the American Astron. Society  
2000: L. Biermann Lectures at the Max Planck Inst. for Astrophysics, Garching  
2000: Marian Smoluchowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society  
2001: Merle Kingsley Distinguished Visitor at Caltech  
2002: Halley Lecture at Oxford University  
2002: Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astron. Society of the Pacific  
2003: Seyfert Lecture at Vanderbilt University  
2007: -------------------