Showing posts with label Jakubowski. Show all posts
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Mar 9, 2021

[RIP] prof. dr hab. inż. Andrzej Jakubowski

Professor Andrzej Jakubowski was born in 1940 in Kraków; died on March 9, 2021 in Warsaw. He was a graduate of the TU Warsaw. He obtained his PhD in 1974, and his habilitation (DSc) in 1983. Six years later, he was awarded the academic professor title. During his scientific and research carrier, he was the author or co-author of about 650 scientific papers, conference contributions and books (including [1]), 9 patents and patent applications, as well as promoting popular science. Professor Jakubowski was one of the most outstanding TU Warsaw professors, co-founder of the Polish microelectronics industry. He was also a pioneer of diamond-like and graphene layers application in microelectronics. For more than 50 years associated with the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics as its Director; founder of an outstanding scientific school of the micro and nanoelectronics, higly recognized in Poland as well as by many foreign R&D centers; a teacher and tutor of next generations of engineers; personally devoted to young people; with deep passion for half a century educating students and scientific staff at the highest international level with immense dedication of all his heart and scientific knowledge. Professor Jakubowski promoted 23 PhD students and may of them are working for international semiconductor companies and R&D organizations, now.

In the years 2004-2008 at the Warsaw University of Technology he was the director of the Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics. Previously, he headed the Department of Microelectronics and the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at this Institute. Between 1989 and 1992, he was the director of the Institute of Electron Technology (ITE, Warsaw; now Lukasiewicz IMiF). He was a member of the Electronics and Telecommunications Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2014, Professor Jakubowski was awarded the honorary title of doctor honoris causa of TU Lodz. For his achievements in scientific and didactic work, he has received, among many others, the award of the Faculty of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) and the Awards of the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

REF:
[1] Andrzej Jakubowski, Wieslaw Marciniak, Henryk M. Przewlocki; Diagnostic Measurements in LSI/VLSI Integrated Circuits Production; World Scientific, 30 Apr 1991; Technology & Engineering; 372pp