Kazimierz Idaszewski (January 16, 1878 in Nochow by Śrem - January 16, 1965 in

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

) was a Polish scholar and specialist of the

electric machine In electrical engineering, electric machine is a general term for machines using electromagnetic forces, such as electric motors, electric generators, and others. They are electromechanical energy converters: an electric motor converts electricity ...

s and of

electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outco ...

, professor of the universities of

Lvov Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in Western Ukraine, western Ukraine, and the List of cities in Ukraine, seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is o ...

Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

and

, and a member of

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...

. Idaszewski was a professor at Lviv Polytechnic prior to World War II and gave the first lecture at Wrocław after the war on November 15th, now celebrate as the Wrocław University of Science and Technology Day. At Wrocław University of Science and Technology, a square is named after him in the Monument to the Martyrdom of Lviv Professors. Prior to the war, he was elected as a councilor of the Lviv City Council in May 1939.

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1878 births 1965 deaths Academic staff of the University of Lviv Academic staff of the University of Silesia in Katowice Academic staff of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology {{Poland-academic-bio-stub