Polish Physical Society in Poznan
H. Drozdowski
Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 2, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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In 1903, the Königliche Akademie zu Posen was founded in Poznań. After World War I, in 1919, this Akademie became the foundation for organizing the physics department at the University of Poznań and then also a branch of the Polish Physical Society. The Poznań Branch of the Physical Society was created on June 30, 1923. The first elected chairman of the Branch Board, Professor Tadeusz Pęczalski, built from scratch the Department of Theoretical Physics of the University of Poznań. In 1935, Prince Louis de Broglie was a guest of this department and gave a lecture discussing his research in the field of wave mechanics. After World War II, the Poznań Branch was revived and registered on May 21, 1949. It was consecutively headed by eminent scholars: Professor Szczepan Szczeniowski, Professor Stanisław Loria and Professor Arkadiusz H. Piekara. Over the years, five congresses of Polish physicists were held in Poznań, i.e., in 1930, 1952, 1969, 1991, and 2013.

DOI:10.12693/APhysPolA.139.219
topics: Polish Physical Society (PPS), Poznań Branch of PPS, chairmen of Poznań Branch of PPS, University of Poznań