7 May 1928 (Warsaw, Poland) – 24 August 2005 (Mexico)

Degrees

  • Magistery in Philosophy in Physics (1951), Warsaw University, Poland
  • Doctor in Physical Sciences (1954), Warsaw University, Poland

Academic and research experience

  • Scientific Researcher since 1949 (University of Warsaw).
  • Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw 1952-1962 (docent).
  • Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw (1962-1968) (prof. Nz.)
  • Ordinary Senior Professor at the University of Warsaw since 1969 (Prof. Zw.)
  • Professor and Head of the Dept. of Physics of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN, 1962-1967, Mexico.
  • Member of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. (1958-1959).
  • Associate Researcher in the Department of Physics U.C.L.A., U.S.A. 1959-1960.
  • Visiting Professor of the Libiediev Institute of the Academy of Sciences and the Nuclear Research Institute in Dubna, U.R.S.S., 1956 and 1961.

Administrative and honorary positions

  • Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Warsaw, cadences from 1956-1958, 1960-1962.
  • Vice-Rector of the University of Warsaw, cadences 1969-1971 and 1971-1973.
  • President of the Scientific Council of the Institute of School Programs of the Ministry of Education (Poland) 1972-1973.
  • President of the Association of Friends of the Ibero-American Culture in Warsaw, 1970-1973.
  • Member of the Commission of the National Plan of Science and Technology, Mexico, 1975-1976.
  • Member of the Académia de la Investigación Científica, Mexico, 1976.
  • Member of the Dictaminating Commission of the Institute of Physics, UNAM 1979-1986.
  • Member of the Commission Dictaminadora of the National System of Researchers, 1986-1990.
  • Member of the Awards Commission of the Academy of Scientific Research (2 times) of which two prizes were given in 1985 to Dr. José Luis Morán López and in 1996 to Dr. Gerardo Torres del Castillo.
  • Director of the best Doctoral Thesis in 1995, by Dr. Héctor Hugo García Competen Weizman award.
  • Honorary Professor of the Department of Physics of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the IPN, with a license from the University of Warsaw.
  • Scientific Advisor of the C. Sub-Secretary of Education and Research, Secretary of Public Education, with a license from the University of Warsaw, during the presidency of Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo.

Distinctions and condorations

  • Scientific Prize of the Ministry of Higher Education of the ler. Degree (May 1970), Poland.
  • Medal of the Commission of Public Education (November of 1973), Poland.
  • Knight of the Order of Poland Restituta (November 1973), Poland.
  • Aguila Azteca with the Degree of Encomienda (July 1976), Mexico.
  • Medal of the Mexican Society of Physics (November 1986), Mexico.
  • Heritage Chair of Exelencia I (January 1993), Mexico.
  • National Researcher Emeritus (1995) S.N.I.
  • The Cross of the Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1998) Poland.
  • Official Diploma granted by the Commission of Scientific Sciences of Poland (1998) Poland.

Activities in the organization of conferences and international symposia

  • Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Conference on Relativity and Gravitation in Jabtonna (Poland) 1962.
  • Co-organizer (with Drs. A. Bohm and M. Moshinski) at the Symposium of Mathematical Physics in Mexico City on January 5-8, 1976.
  • Member of the Program Committee of the GR8 (8-th International Conference on Relativity and Gravitation) and president of the Exact Solutions Symposium, within said conference, held in Waterloo (Canada) in July 1977.
  • President of the Organizing Committee of the Latin American Symposium of Relativity and Gravitation, SILARG II, which was held in August 1978 in Mexico.
  • Member of the International Committee of the Society of Relativity and Gravitation, elected during the GR8 in Waterloo, Canada, 1977, for a period of 9 years.
  • Co-organizer with Prof. J. A. Wheeler, of the Relativity session, International Mathematical Physics Symposium, Austin, Texas, September 1978.
  • Member of the National Committee of the PAGWASH Meeting, Mexico, D.F., July 1979.
  • Member of the Organizing Committee of the IX International Colloquium on Applications of Group Theory in Physics, which was held in Mexico in June 1980.
  • Member of the “Advisory Committee” of the 2nd. “Marcel Grossman Meeting”, Trieste (Italy) July 1979.

Editorial activities

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the “Reports in Mathematical Physics”, Toruñ, Polo-nia, from 1970-1992.
  • Member of the Referral Body of the Classical and Quantum Gravity. (1993-?)