Piotr Wenceslas Stanislavovich Slonimsky ( Polish: Piotr Wacław Słonimski ; December 5, 1893 , Warsaw - September 2, 1944 , ibid.) - Polish physician , zoologist , histologist and embryologist .
| Peter Vaclav Stanislavovich Slonimsky | |
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| Piotr Wacław Słonimski | |
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| Date of Birth | December 5, 1893 |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw , Kingdom of Poland , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | September 2, 1944 (aged 50) |
| Place of death | Warsaw Governor General , German Empire |
| Citizenship |  Poland |
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Biography
Representative of the famous Jewish Slonim family (see Family ). The son of a Warsaw doctor Stanislav Slonimsky . The elder brother of the poet and playwright Anthony Slonim . Father geneticist Peter Slonim .
He studied biology at the Lviv University of Jan Casimir . Then he worked at the Zoological Institute under the guidance of the famous evolutionary researcher I. Nusbaum-Gilarovich .
He took part in the First World War as part of the Polish Legions . After the war he was a teacher at the University of Warsaw .
Then - a participant in the Soviet-Polish war of 1920.
Member of the Polish Biological Society.
Member of the September 1939 campaign . During the German occupation of Warsaw, he taught at secret university courses.
As a doctor, he participated in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. He died with his wife during the fascist bombing of a medical hospital.
Scientific activity
He was engaged in studies of intravital staining of cells, the effect of thyroid hormones on the growth and development of vertebrates . The author of more than one hundred scientific publications, in particular, on the ecology and systematics of rotifers and trilacids .
Links
- Słonimscy (Polish)