Cecylia Radłowska

• Autorzy: Bogacki M.
• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

Cecylia Radłowska was born on 28 June 1913, in Łódź. She received the school-leaving certificate in 1931 and she began the geographic studies at the University of Warsaw which she finally finished at the Jagiellonian University in 1937. Her master's thesis was entitled Evolution in afforestation and changes in arable lands in Kuyavia and the Greater Poland from the end of the 18th century till the beginning of the 20th century. In 1945-1955 she worked at the University of Łódź where she obtained the title of a doctor for her dissertation Morphology of the Prosna river valley. At the end of 1956 she moved to the University of Warsaw where in 1963 she obtained habilitation on the basis of her dissertation The relief of the North-eastern edge of the Świętokrzyskie Mountains. She was assigned for a docent and for an associated professor in 1974. Since 1959 she was the secretary in the Commission on Physiographical Research of the Committee for Spatial Planning of Poland at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Professor C. Radłowska dedicated herself to the issues of the periglacial geomorphology, of paleogeomorphology in the old mountains and uplands areas, and of glacial and glaciofluvial relief. In the Warsaw centre she initiated precursory research on the dynamic geomorphology. At the University of Warsaw professor Cecylia Radłowska organized the Department of Geomorphology which she ran from 1964 until her retirement in 1983. She was a well-known and valued specialist on geomorphology. In 1970-1976 she ran the Doctoral Studies at the Faculty of Geography of the University of Warsaw. She promoted several dozen masters geographers geomorphologists and five doctors. Her lectures and seminars were highly appreciated by students and doctorates as she not only taught but she also nurtured. She was respected for her serious attitude toward duties, her severe demands, her excellent manners, and her sense of humour. In recognition of her scientific and didactic achievements, she was many times honoured with the Rector's and the Minister's awards and with national decorations. Professor Cecylia Radłowska died on 15 November 1990, in Łódź.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Prace i Studia Geograficzne
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: 40
• Opis fizyczny: s.279-286,fot.

Twórcy

autor

Bogacki M.

• Instytut Geografii Fizycznej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul.Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa