Native of Poland, holder of Ph.D. in Mathematics from University                Wroclaw – one of the top Polish Universities founded in 1702 (*).

(*) In the second half of the nineteenth century numerous scholars              of international renown lectured at Wroclaw University: E. Buchner            (chemistry), R. W. Bunsen (chemistry), P. G. Dirichlet (mathematics),      J. G. Galle (astronomy), A. Hillebrandt (philology), G. R. Kirchhoff  (physics), E. Kummer (mathematics), J. Partsch (geography), J. E. Purkynje (physiology), R. Roepell (history), C.T. Siebold (zoology),        and H. Steffens (physics).

 The Nobel Prize Connection. The following professors and students     from University of Wroclaw were awarded the coveted prize: Theodor         Mommsen (literature, 1902), Philip Lennard (physics, 1905), Eduard           Buchner (chemistry, 1907), Paul Ehrlich (medicine, 1908), Fritz Haber         (chemistry, 1918), Friedrich Bergius (chemistry, 1931), Otto Stern               (physics, 1943), Max Born (physics, 1954).