Marcin Antoni Kubiak is a Polish astrophysicist, who obtained his professorship title on 25 April 1994. Member of Committee of Astronomy of the

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 ...

, a member of the

Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) is a Polish astronomical project based at the University of Warsaw that runs a long-term variability sky survey (1992–present). The main goals are the detection and classification of variable ...

(OGLE), co-discoverer (together with OGLE team) of many extrasolar planetary systems (e.g. OGLE-2006-BLG-109L). Author of widely used academic book for astronomy students "Stars and interstellar matter" ( :pl:Gwiazdy i materia międzygwiazdowa). Head of the Warsaw University Observatory ,

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during 1986–2008. Editor of quarterly

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and a chairman of

Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy The Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy ( pl, Fundacja Astronomii Polskiej im. Mikołaja Kopernika) is a Polish scientific foundation which aim is to support Polish astronomy by: financing research, founding stipends, propagation of an astr ...

. He is a co-discoverer of

471143 Dziewanna 471143 Dziewanna , exact: , provisional designation , is a trans-Neptunian object in the scattered disc, orbiting the Sun in the outermost region of the Solar System. It was discovered on 13 March 2010, by astronomers Andrzej Udalski, Scott She ...

, a

trans-Neptunian object A trans-Neptunian object (TNO), also written transneptunian object, is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune, which has a semi-major axis of 30.1 astronomical units (au). Typically, ...

and possibly a dwarf planet.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kubiak, Marcin 20th-century Polish astronomers Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Polish astronomers

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