Jack Tuszyński (born 1956) is a Polish professor of

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and

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Biography

Tuszyński graduated with a master's degree in

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from the

University of Poznan A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

in 1980 and obtained his PhD in

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three years later from the

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. He became a postdoctoral

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at the

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department the same year. From 1983 to 1988 he worked at the Department of Physics of the

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, then worked in the same department at the

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for two years. From 1990 to 1993 he was promoted to associate, then full professor, and as of 2005 became Allard Chair of the

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. He also served in a Division of Experimental Oncology and is an editor of such journals as the '' Journal of Biological Physics'', ''

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'' and many others which brought him an

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of 32 as of 2014. Tuszyński was part of a team of researchers who found that anesthetic drugs allow

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to re-emit trapped light in a much shorter time than originally thought. They found that light caught inside an energy trap was re-emitted after a delay, and they propose that this process might be explained through quantum laws. With the use of an anesthetic, however, this delay was considerably shorter. The process of

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may be behind the delay."Experiment suggests that consciousness may be rooted in quantum physics: Is this where "consciousness begins?"
by Victor Tangermann. (Retrieved May 4, 2022.)

Biography

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