Professor Vitold Eugene Orłowski: Life and Achievement of an Eminent Polish Internist

Professor Tadeusz Orłowski -- the founder of Polish nephrology.

285 It is by no means easy to characterize a person who devoted over 60 years of his life to patients, scientific research, education of medical per‐ sonnel, as well as social and organizational ac‐ tivities. Professor Tadeusz Orłowski – the son of Witold Orłowski, one of the greatest Polish spe‐ cialists in inter nal medicine – was born on Sep‐ tember 13, 1917 in Kazań. He studied at the under...

Odo Bujwid - an eminent Polish bacteriologist and professor at the Jagiellonian University.

To celebrate the 650th Jubilee of the Jagiellonian University, we would like to give an outline of the life and work of Odo Bujwid, known as the father of Polish bacteriology. The intention of the authors is to recall the beginnings of Polish bacteriology, the doyen of which was Professor Odo Bujwid, a great Polish scholar who also served as a promoter of bacteriology, a field created in the 19...

Professor Tadeusz Orłowski -- editor-in-chief of the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine (1963-1994).

284 Professor Tadeusz Orłowski’s position of the edi‐ tor‐in‐chief of the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine (Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnętrznej – PAMW) was not only an important part of his medical career but also a great benefit to the de‐ velopment of internal medicine in Poland. The first issue of the PAMW, an official journal of the newly established Polish Soci‐ ety of Internal Medic...

Professor Tadeusz Orłowski: in memory of an outstanding doctor and a leading personality in the scientific life.

287 Professor Tadeusz Orłowski passed away on July 30, 2008. He was an outstanding physician and the teacher of many generations of doctors, a distinguished and committed scientist, an author of about 400 scientific publications, the supervisor of a few dozen doctoral theses in medical sciences and also a former soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, Polish resistance organization during Worl...

Professor Gerald Westheimer FRS Australian optometry's pre-eminent vision scientist.