Iwo Robert Waclaw Lominski
FRSE (1905-1968) was a Polish-born microbiologist working in Britain in the 20th century. In articles he is referred to as I. R. W. Lominski.
Life
He was born in
Krakow in south-west
Poland
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in 1905. He studied medicine at the
University of Krakow
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and gained his doctorate (MD) in 1931. He obtained a prestigious position in the
Pasteur Institute
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in
Paris
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.
At the outbreak of the
Second World War
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he joined Polish forces fighting in France but was invalided out in 1940. In 1941 he went to Britain and obtained a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship at
Glasgow University
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. In 1948 he also took on a role of senior consultant at Glasgow Western Infirmary. In 1963 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (DSc) by the university and in 1966 he was created professor of microbiology.
In 1958 he was elected a fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were
Carl Hamilton Browning,
John Walton,
Norman Davidson, and
John Monteath Robertson.
He died on 19 October 1968 aged only 63. In 1997 the "Iwo Lominski Bursary" was created by Glasgow University in his memory.
References
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1905 births
1968 deaths
Physicians from Kraków
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Polish microbiologists
Polish soldiers
Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom