Wydział Chemii

Józef J. Ziółkowski

2000

Coordination Chemistry Reviews

209

15-33

10.1016/S0010-8545(99)00254-4

Naukowa

Angielski

Artykuł

We recently observed the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Professor Bogusława Jeżowska-Trzebiatowska. She died suddenly on 16 December 1991, in an accident in her own home. Though she was 83 when she died, she worked intensely until the very end, chairing the Wrocław Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences. How does one write after all those years about someone of Professor Jeżowska-Trzebiatowska's calibre? As the folk saying goes, a real man should build a home, plant a tree, and sire a descendant. Does this formulation also apply to women? During the official 80th Birthday Celebration for Professor Jeżowska-Trzebiatowska I took the liberty of travestying the folk wisdom when I declared that Professor Jeżowska-Trzebiatowska was indeed a man, for she had built a home — the complex of buildings which currently houses Wrocław University's Faculty of Chemistry — she had planted the tree of coordination chemistry, transplanted to Wrocław from Lwów (today's Lviv), where she began her academic career under the supervision of Professor Wiktor Jakób — and finally, she had ‘sired’ many descendants, for that is surely an apt way to describe her countless students. Of the more than 70 whose doctoral dissertations she directed, over 30 are now professors working at various universities at home and abroad.

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