With deep sorrow, we announce that Professor Jerzy Lewandowski, the first and long-serving president of the Polish Relativity Society, passed away on October 8, 2024, after a sudden illness.
The funeral ceremony of Professor Jerzy Lewandowski will take place on October 25th, 2024. A funeral mass will be held at 10:30 AM in St. Alexander’s Church at Three Crosses Square in Warsaw (Kościół Aleksandra przy placu Trzech Krzyży). After the mass, the procession will proceed to the Northern Cemetery.
[photo from the website https://zapytajfizyka.fuw.edu.pl/wyklady/jerzy-lewandowski/]
Professor Jerzy Lewandowski was one of the most prominent Polish physicists specializing in gravity, both in its classical and quantum aspects. He was internationally recognized primarily as one of the founders of loop quantum gravity. Professor Jerzy Lewandowski was the head of the Department of Relativity and Gravity at the University of Warsaw and remained scientifically active even in the face of illness.
In his passing, we lost a brilliant academic and a kindhearted colleague, whose assistance and dedication we could always count on.
