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2010-11-26 12:40:53

Wrocław - Ph.D. honoris causa for Jerzy Buzek

Former Polish Prime Minister and the chairman of the European Parliament, prof. Jerzy Buzek, was awarded Ph.D. honoris causa from the Wrocław University of Technology. Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, the Speaker of the Parliament, Grzegorz Schetyna, and the Minister of Culture, Bogdan Zdrojewski, participated in the event in Wrocław.

Jerzy Buzek

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Among other visitors were ca. 60 rectors of Polish universities and 30 rectors from abroad i.a. from Germany, Spain, Russia and Denmark. The celebration was the culmination point of ‘The Hundred Years of Technical Universities in WrocÅ‚aw’ that has begun in early 2010.

Prof. Buzek’s thesis officer is prof. Andrzej Wiszniewski, former rector of the WrocÅ‚aw University of Technology. The thesis was reviewed by prof. MirosÅ‚aw Handke of AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, prof. Wiliband Winkler of Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice and prof. Edmund Wittbrodt of Gdansk University of Technology. All reviewers were chosen by the Senate of the WrocÅ‚aw University of Technology.

The Senate emphasised prof. Buzek’s activity in promotion of science and new technologies. For instance, prof. Buzek is the reporting MP in 7th Framework Programme for Research.

In the course of his career as a scholar, prof. Jerzy Buzek worked in the field of theory and use of process engineering. He published over 100 works on Exchange of mass and heat, treatment of industrial waste gases with the particular fokus on desulpurisation of exhaust fumes.

In the past, the Wrocław University of Technology awarded honoris causa Ph.D. titles to the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, Card. Henryk Gulbinowicz and Stanisław Lem, writer and others.