Aleksander Jabłoński

Aleksander Jabłoński (born February 26, 1898 in Woskresenówka , Ukraine ; † September 9, 1980 in Skierniewice , Poland ) was a Polish physicist , professor and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences .

Aleksander Jablonski

Jablonski went to school in Kharkiv and studied physics there, interrupted by military service in the Russian army in the First World War. In 1919 he went to Warsaw to continue his studies and was at the same time in the Polish army with the pioneers and was awarded in the Polish-Soviet war . He then studied music and worked as a violinist in the Warsaw Opera until 1926, while at the same time studying physics with a degree in 1925 and a doctorate on fluorescence with Stefan Pienkowski in 1930. As a post-doctoral student , he was with a Rockefeller scholarship in Berlin until 1932 Peter Pringsheim and in Hamburg with Otto Stern . In 1934 he completed his habilitation and became senior assistant at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius . During World War II he served again in the army against the Soviet invasion, then was in a number of camps and then joined the Polish armed forces in Great Britain, also teaching in Edinburgh. At the end of 1945 he was back in Poland, built up the physics faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Thorn and headed experimental physics there until his retirement in 1968.

He worked on intermolecular interactions in the absorption and emission of light. The Jabłoński scheme proposed by him in 1935 and named after him serves to explain fluorescence and phosphorescence .

He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 1957 to 1961 he was President of the Polish Physical Society . In 1968 he received the Marian Smoluchowski Medal .

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SURNAME	Jabłoński, Aleksander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Woskresenówka , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH	September 9, 1980
Place of death	Skierniewice , Poland