Witold Nowacki

Nowacki's grave in Warsaw

Witold Nowacki (born July 20, 1911 in Zakrzewo ; † August 23, 1986 in Warsaw ) was a Polish civil engineer and engineering scientist.

Nowacki studied civil engineering at the TH Danzig from 1929 to 1934 and then worked as a civil engineer in northern Poland. From September 1939 to January 1945 he was a German prisoner of war in Woldenberg , where he taught fellow prisoners and prepared scientific publications, with which he received his doctorate at the Warsaw Polytechnic in 1945 (and habilitated in the same year). In 1945 he became a professor at the Polytechnic in Gdansk and in 1952 at the Polytechnic in Warsaw, and from 1956 he was a professor of elasticity and plasticity theory at the University of Warsaw .

He wrote Polish textbooks on structural engineering, founded magazines in this field in Poland such as the Archives of Mechanics and had many students who also became professors.

He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and its president from 1978 to 1980. In 1979 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Fonts

• The state of stress in a thin plate due to the action of sources of heat, Proc. IABSE, Volume 16, Zurich 1956
• Dynamics of elastic systems, Wiley 1963
• Theory of creep - linear viscoelasticity, Vienna: Deuticke 1965
• Dynamic problems of thermoelasticity, Leiden: Noordhoff 1966
• Theory of asymmetric elasticity, Warsaw: PWN 1981
• Autobiographical Notes (Polish), Warsaw, PWN 1985

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 1040 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 25, 2020 .