Aleksander Jabłoński
Aleksander Jabłoński | |
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Kharkiv University University of Warsaw | |
Known for | Jablonski diagram |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics - photoluminescence |
Institutions | Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń |
Doctoral advisor | Stefan Pienkowski |
Aleksander Jabłoński (born 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka, in
Life and career
He was born on 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka near
During the
Jabłoński initially studied the violin at Warsaw Conservatory, under the virtuoso Stanisław Barcewicz, but later switched to science.
He received a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw in 1930, writing a thesis On the influence of the change of the wavelength of excitation light on the fluorescence spectra. He then went to Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin, Germany for two years (1930–31) as a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation. He worked with Peter Pringsheim at the FWU and later with Otto Stern in Hamburg. In 1934 Jabłoński returned to Poland to receive habilitation from the University of Warsaw. His thesis was On the influence of intermolecular interactions on the absorption and emission of light, the subject to which he would devote the rest of his life. He served as president of the Polish Physical Society between 1957 and 1961.
Jabłoński was a pioneer of molecular photophysics, creating the concept of the "luminescent centre" and his own theories of concentrational quenching and
Fluorescence is illustrated schematically with the classical Jablonski diagram, first proposed by Jabłoński in 1933[2] to describe absorption and emission of light.
In 1946, he settled in Toruń where he was appointed Head of the Faculty of Physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Awards and honours
- Cross of Valour (1920)
- Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation (1930–31)
- Golden Cross of Merit (1951)
- Marian Smoluchowski Medal (1968)
- Honorary degree of the University of Windsor (1973)[3]
- Honorary degree of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (1973)
- Honorary degree of the University of Gdańsk (1975)[4]
References
- Complete list of papers published by Professor Aleksander Jablonski Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- A short biography of Aleksander Jabłoński Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Kompletna lista prac Aleksandra Jabłońskiego Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
- Aleksander Jabłoński fulltext articles in Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library
Notes
- ^ Szudy, Jozef (28 March 2024). "Aleksander Jablonski". fizyka. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
- ^ Nature.com
- ^ "Professor Aleksander Jabłoński". Retrieved 2019-08-07.
- ^ "Doktorzy Honorowi Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego". Archived from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2019-08-07.