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Okruchy IX. Maciej

Siemion I.Z.

Wiadomości Chemiczne

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2009

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[Z] 63, 1-2

141-147

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Droga naukowa Profesora Macieja Wiewiórowskiego

Adamiak R.W., Antkowiak W. Z.

Wiadomości Chemiczne

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2003

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[Z] 57, 11-12

1001-1037

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Professor Dr Maciej Wiewiórowski, the Professor Emeritus at the University of Adam Mickiewicz and at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, a distinguished organic chemist of international authority, truly meritorious in the development of natural product chemistry and the implementation of modern research methods in Poland, celebrates the 85"' anniversary of his birthday this year. In recognition of his remarkable achievements in the field of natural product chemistry, a group of his alumni and former coworkers dedicated to him a symposium (specially organized as a part of the Polish Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Lublin 2003) concerning bioorganic chemistry, the field of science in which his achievements were most significant. Professor M. Wiewiórowski was born August 24, 1918, in Bagatelka, (which is in Poznan’s province). He took up a university course in chemistry in 1936, being interrupted by the World War 11, during which he was deeply engaged in the resistance movement, serving in the Polish underground Home Army, AK, and was kept imprisoned for two years by the German Security Service, SI). He picked up the course again in March, 1945, and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Poznań University in 1946 and 1950, respectively. The latter degree he got for his studies of alfa isomerism in codeine chemistry, working under the supervision of Prof. Jerzy Suszko. Professor M. Wiewiórowski got his scientific title of associate professor in 1959 and that of full professor in 1969. From 1946 to 1959, he was employed by the Academy Economics, where he filled numerous high posts and organized a research team working in the natural product chemistry. 1 Ie returned to the university, UAM, in 1959, where he was employed till his retirement in 1989, being the Head of the Stereochemistry Department (1967 1980), the Director of the Institute of Chemistry (1969 1973) and a vice-Rector of A. Mickiewicz University (1968 1972). from 1955, lie was additionally employed by the Polish Academy of Science, being the Head successively of the Biochemical Laboratory in the Plants Cultivation Department (1955 I960), the Biochemistry and Alkaloids Structure Department in IHH (1960 1969), the Natural Product Stereochemistry Department, Inst. Org. ('hem. (1969 1980), the Bioorganic Chemistry Department (1980 1988) and the Bioorganic Chemistry Institute in PASc, as the Director from February to July, 1988, when he retired. In 1965, Professor M. Wiewiórowski heeame an associated member and, in 1977, a full member of the PASc. The numerous scientific contacts with (he most significant chemical and biochemical research centers in the world were initiated by Professor M. Wiewiórowski in 1956 1957, when he was a Follow at the University of Vienna in Professor F. Galinowsky's laboratory and then, twice at the National Research (Council of Canada, Ottawa, in 1959 1960 and 1965 1966, working with Dr. I., Marion. Dr, O.K Edwards and Dr. M. Przybylski. In the late Sixties, lie participated in the formation of a new research center in Poznań, the Intercollegiate Institute of Biochemistry, and, because of his initiative, two other institutions, useful to all the research laboratories in and around Poznań, the Instrumental Chemical Analysis Center and the Doctoral Studios Center, were created at UAM. His first scientific object of interest was the structure of alkaloids, particularly those isolated from lupin plants. Research in this field later evolved into a study of an intramolecular catalysis, the nun of which was to examine the mechanism of the enzyme action, using cyclic diamines as model compounds. His second field of scientific interest, undertaken at the end of the Sixties, was the innovatory on a world scale chemical research of nucleic acids, especially concerning their synthesis, structure elucidation, isolation from plant material and role in peptide synthesis. At the end of the Sixties, he created a new research group, based on the young people working under his supervision at the Institute of Chemistry. UAM, and at the Department of Natural Product Stereochemistry, Inst. Org. Chem., PASc, giving them a special education in the field of nucleic acid chemistry. This group, which was, in 1974, moved from the university to a new place in Noskowskiego Street, where the main chemical mid biochemical laboratories were only built in the following years, very soon readied some significant scientific achievements. Moreover, this group constituted the origin of the independent Department in 198(1, which became the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, PASc, in 1988, administered by Professor M. Wiewiórowski all the time till his retirement.

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Profesor Maciej Wiewiórowski jako współtwórca nowoczesnych badań chemicznych w Polsce

Antkowiak W.Z.

Wiadomości Chemiczne

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2000

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[Z] 54, 11-12

939-947

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Professor Maciej Wiewiórowski is one of the most distinguished organic chemists in the world. He got his PhD in 1950 working on the chemical transformations of codeine with Professor J. Suszko at Poznań University. Next, he started developing his own research programme concerning the alkaloid composition of certain Lupinus species. Several of his students then are still continuing the structural and synthetic research in this topic. At the end of the fifties, he spent quite some time on his first long-term post-doctoral fellowship working with Professor Leo Marion in the laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, and it appeared to be the beginning of his fruitful collaborations with many outstanding scientists in the world in the subsequent years. When working in this foreign laboratory, he took the opportunity to become acquainted with many modern research techniques, especially column chromatography and IR as well as other spectroscopic methods, which enabled him to propagate and popularize these techniques in our country when he returned. In the late sixties, being the Head of the Stereochemistry and Organic Spectrochemistry Division at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, he began to organize, under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Science, a new field of research in Poland, then undeveloped worldwide, concerning the synthesis of nucleic acids. He both gathered young scientists, giving them special training, and organized new laboratories outside the University. In the early seventies, he moved with his group to the tentative laboratories at Noskowskiego Street in Poznań, there systematically and intensively expanding this research center, which finally resulted in the creation of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the PASc, a leader in the scientific world in carrying out modern biochemical research in nucleic acid as well as in protein chemistry. During recent years, already being retired, he is still very active in the life of the Institute , including carrying out research mainly on the reaction of nucleosides in a solid state.