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WITOLD ABILSKI

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Witold abiski, professor emeritus of the Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection at the University of Science and Technology – AGH in Cracow (Poland) passed away on 15^th January, 2007.

Witold abiski was born on 17^th July, 1929 in Cracow as a son of a professor and rector of the Economic University. His early interest in the natural sciences is documented in the 1947 concise book Guide Book of Cracow and its Environs, published when he was 18 years old. In the years 1947 – 1951 he studied geology and chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, from which he graduated in 1951 with a Master of Philosophy degree in geology and palaeontology. In the same year he was employed as an assistant at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrography at the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Cracow. In the following years he climbed the academic ladder there, obtaining the posts of an adjunct (1959), associate professor (1965) and extraordinary professor (1973). In 1981 he achieved the top academic position of the ordinary professor and in 1993 was elected a member–correspondent . . . [Full Text of this Article]