Professor Jerzy Kroh Rector of Lodz University of Technology between 1981 and 1987

Professor Jerzy Kroh was born in Warsaw on 28 August 1924. In 1945 he began his studies at the Faculty of Chemistry at Lodz University of Technology and at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Lodz. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences in 1950 and he began working in the Department of Physical Chemistry, where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Chemical Sciences in 1958. He was awarded the title of associate professor in 1963 and he became full professor in 1968.
Important functions:

  • at the University: Rector of Lodz University of Technology (1981-1987), Dean of the Department of Food Chemistry (1962-1966), head of the Department of Radiation Chemistry which was newly established at the Faculty of Chemistry and which was first transformed into the Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry in 1966, and then in 1970 into Institute of Applied Radiation Chemistry (1962- 1994);
  • outside the University: corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976), full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1986), founding member, long-standing president, and then honorary member of the Polish Radiation Research Society, fulfilling the duties of the member of the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences as well as vice-chairperson of Lodz Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences, board member of the International Association of Radiation Research (1983), vice-president of Miller Trust for Radiation Chemistry, vice-president of Lodz for education and science (1996-1998).