Włodzimierz Klonowski
Włodzimierz Klonowski | |
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| Born | 1945 |
| Died | April 4, 2020 |
| Nationality | Polish |
Włodzimierz Klonowski (1945 – April 4, 2020) was a Polish biomedical physicist who worked in the field of biological engineering.
Life and career
Klonowski was born in Moscow, where his parents briefly lived at the end of World War II, on their way back from a Bashkir village in the Ural Mountains, where they had been displaced after the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. He was born on the Stary (Old) Arbat Street, where the name stone in his honour has been put close to the fountain (the former Grauerman maternity hospital has now official address 7 New Arbat). His father, Stefan Klonowski, was a specialist in Polish studies. His mother, Gabriela Pauszer-Klonowska, was a novelist.
Klonowski lived in Warsaw from 1946 until martial law was introduced in Poland in 1981. He obtained his M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Warsaw in 1968 with specializations in Biophysics. Then he worked for several years at the Institute of Basic Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences on theory of networks and of sol-gel transitions in macromolecular systems. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences in 1973. Then he worked on theory of intracranial pressure at the Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Research Center Polish Academy of Sciences. From there he left with his family to become professor in physics and biophysics at the University of Kinshasa, Kongo (then Zaïre, French-speaking), where he was caught by the martial law in Poland. He was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany (1982–1984) and then with German Fremdenpass, because Polish People Republic refused to give him a valid passport, he moved as a visiting professor to Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA (1984–1986).
In 1986 Klonowski decided to emigrate officially to Canada where he has worked at
His scientific work had an interdisciplinary character. His monograph "Probabilistic Theory of Crosslinked Macromolecular Systems with Applications in
Klonowski wrote features for newspapers, in Poland and in Canada, and he was also a candidate to the
Klonowski was actively involved in international scientific cooperation. He was the founder and the coordinator of the European Interdisciplinary Schools on Nonlinear Dynamics for System and Signal Analysis EUROATTRACTOR (
He was active in scientific societies. In 1969 he founded the Biophysical Section of the
In 1991–2000 he served as an Associate Editor of IPCT – Interpersonal Computing and Technology, Electronic Journal for the 21st Century, one of the first if not the very first internet journal. In 2007 he founded (Founding Editor), a new open access journal Nonlinear Biomedical Physics (BioMed Central, London) and served as an editor-in-chief of this journal.
In 2016, Klonowski initiated and co-signed an unprecedented letter addressed to one of departments of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, in which he asked to take away the Ph.D. degree awarded by the department to Maciej Lasek, a former chief of the State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation.
His biograms may be found in several ‘Who’s Who’s, like Kto jest kim w Polsce (‘Who’s Who in Poland’, Ed. IV, PAI, Warsaw, 2001).
References
External links
- Wlodzimierz Klonowski Home Page
- Group of Biosignal Analysis Fundamentals Site
- Nonlinear Biomedical Physics Journal
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