On February 10, 2025, Professor Wojciech Andrzej Dziembowski passed away.
Wojciech Dziembowski was one of the world's best-known Polish astrophysicists, an outstanding theorist involved in the study of the pulsations of stars and the Sun. His groundbreaking work in the 1970s is one of the foundations of modern asteroseismology. For his contributions to the development of the study of solar and stellar oscillations, he was honored with the Bohdan Paczynski Medal, among other awards.
During his prolific career, he was associated with both the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw and the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, of which he was director in 1987-1992. He was a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. From 2003 to 2006 Wojciech Dziembowski was President of Commission 35 (Stellar Constitution) of the International Astronomical Union.
Wojciech Dziembowski's scientific achievements are related to helioseismology and asteroseismology. In these fields, Wojciech Dziembowski has either personally or together with his colleagues published many pioneering works - pioneering both conceptually and technically - that have received wide recognition from the scientific community and initiated the development of new perspective research directions. He created the Polish school of asteroseismology; promoted 7 PhDs in physics; and helped his colleagues and many other variable star researchers interpret their various results, both theoretical and observational.
He was a scientist with deep mathematical and physical knowledge and extraordinary intuition.
Funeral ceremonies for Professor Wojciech Dziembowski will be held on 20 February 2025 at 13:00 in the hall of the Funeral Home at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw, followed by the carrying away of the urn to the Powązki Stare Cemetery to the family grave, at 14:30.
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