Bolesław Konorski (14 April 1892 – 12 February 1986) was a Polish engineer and electrotechnician. He was

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of the Lodz University of Technology in 1952–1953. He graduated from the

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in 1918. In 1946 he started work at the Lodz University of Technology (TUL), where he largely contributed to the organising of the didactic process for electricians. He was a founder and then Head of the Fundamentals of Electrotechnology Department. From 1948 to 1952 he was Pro-Rector of the TUL, then Rector in 1952–1953. He became a full professor in 1951. Konorski published nearly 100 works in the field of theoretical

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, in which he made a generalisation of

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and specified and expanded the concept of molecular capacity in power cables. His four-volume monograph on the fundamentals of electrotechnology and theoretical electrotechnology was the first academic course-book in the field in post-war Poland. He also published a book on the elements of

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and

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and

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. He was an author and editor of ''Kalendarzyk Elektrotechniczny''. Konorski was a co-founder of the Polish Association of Theoretical and Applied Electrotechnology, a member of the

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' Science Council in the Institute of Basic Problems in Technology, and a member of the Lodz Scientific Association. From 1952 to 1957 he was a member of the Central Membership Committee. In 1979 he became a member of Scientific Training Association (Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych).

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Konorski, Boleslaw 1892 births 1986 deaths Engineers from Łódź People from Piotrków Governorate University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of Łódź University of Technology Polish electrical engineers Polish United Workers' Party members Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland