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Wojciech Andrzej Dziembowski (born 14 January 1940 in Warsaw) – is a Polish astronomer, member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Learning
Biography
Studied at the Jagiellonian University. In 1967 defended his PhD thesis on the University of Warsaw. Professor's degree received in 1983. Since 1989 correspondent member of Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), since 2007 full member.
1967-1969 fellowship at the Columbia University in New York. In 1969 he began working for the CAMK of PAN in Warsaw, Poland, where from 1987-1992 he served as director. In 1997 he also became a professor of the Astronomical Observatory at the University of Warsaw.
Publications
He is an author of 138 publications in academic magazines that have been reviewed and quoted 7449 times (as for end of January 2016)
Significant works:
- Oscillations of giants and supergiants, 1977
- Nonlinear mode coupling in oscillating stars, 1982
- The radial gradient in the Sun's rotation, 1989
- Solar model from helioseismology and the neutrino flux problem, 1990
- The opacity mechanism in B-type stars, 1993
- Oscillations of α UMa and other red giants, 2001
- Asteroseismology of the β Cephei star ν Eridani, 2004
Prizes and awards
- Award of the 3rd Department of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry PAN (1978)
- Medaille de l’Adion of the Nice Observatory (2000)
- Golden Medal of the University of Wrocław (2005)
