Abstract
Mikołaj Łabowski, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Acoustics, Adam
Mickiewicz University in Poznań, passed away on the 8th of October, 2013.
Professor Mikołaj Łabowski was born on the 17th of December, 1935, in
Florynka in the southern part of Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Adam Mickiewicz University
receiving his Master of Science degree in physics in 1962. Eight years
later he obtained his PhD title from the same university. In 1981, on the
basis of the book “Ultra- and hypersonic properties of selected liquids
and critical mixtures” he obtained the degree of habilitated doctor. The
President of Poland awarded him the titles of Associate Professor in
Physics in the year 1991 and Full Professor in 1999. From 1985 to
1987,Mikołaj Łabowski held the post of Vice-Dean for Students’ Affairs at
the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the AdamMickiewicz University.
In the years 1996–1999, he was the Director of the University’s Institute
of Acoustics. He held many posts in the Polish Acoustical Society, of
which he was a HonoraryMember. He always served with advice and assistance
in scientific matters to the Committee of Acoustics of the Polish Academy
of Sciences. Professor Łabowski was an outstanding scientist, one of the
founders of ultrasonic physics in Poland. After returning from scholarship
in the Lomonsov University in Moscow, he became an expert in the field of
ultrasonic studies of liquids and liquid mixtures. His groundbreaking
works on ultrasonic properties of critical binary mixtures opened up new
perspectives in the research of dynamic phenomena in the vicinity of
critical temperatures. Professor Łabowski’s outstanding scientific
achievements were recognized by rewarding him the Minister of Education
Prize in the years 1981 and 1987. Throughout his whole professional career
associated with the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Professor
Łabowski has published over 100 papers, mostly in renowned international
scientific journals, and carried out an intensive teaching activity.
Through his profound knowledge and enthusiasm, Professor Mikołaj Łabowski
continuously inspired colleagues and collaborators and decisively shaped
the development of ultrasonic physics in Poznań. With the death of
Professor Mikołaj Łabowski, Polish acoustics has lost a great researcher,
teacher, and scholar.
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