Jerzy Wicha
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Professor Institute of Organic Chemistry, the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Kasprzaka 44, 01-224 Warsaw 42, Poland Born: February 14, 1936, Warsaw, Poland |
Education:
- M. Sc.: Moscow State University, 1958
- Ph. D.: The University of Warsaw, 1964
- D. Sc.: The University of Warsaw, 1970
Post-doctoral
positions:
- The Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA;
- Oxford University, UK, Dyson Perrins Laboratory
Positions:
- 1958-1960 Research Associate, Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Warsaw
- 1960 -1970 Instructor - reader, the University of Warsaw
- 1970 - 1978 Docent, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences
- 1978 - Professor, the same Institute
Temporary
pos.:
- 1978/1979 The University of Chicago, USA, Department of Chemistry, visiting Senior Scientist (associated with Prof. Josef Fried)
- 1990/1991 University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Department of Biochemistry,
- Associate Professor 1997 July-August, University of Cape Code, Republic of South Africa
Fields
of interest:
Methods of synthesis, synthesis of natural products (isoprenoids, prostaglandins, pheromones, building blocks for macrolides), chemistry and synthetic applications of organosilicon compounds, stereochemistry, structure -biological activity relation
Awards:
- Polish Chemical Society Award for Young Scientists, 1968
- Polish Academy of Sciences Award, 1990
- Kostanecki Medal, Polish Chemical Society,
- Heyrovsky Golden Medal, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
Other
professional commitments:
- Editor of Polish Journal of Chemistry, 1993-1997
- Chairman of the Conferences on Isoprenoids