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Астронет: М. Е. Прохоров/ГАИШ Умер Богдан Пачиньский http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1221655 |
Умер Богдан Пачиньский20.04.2007 16:08 | М. Е. Прохоров/ГАИШ, Москва
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: -------------------