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TO BE AS WOLAŃSKI, THAT IS, HOW TO MEET THE DREAMS OF THE YOUNG AGE WHEN BEING A BOY AND INVENTOR OF SPACE DRIVES

BYĆ JAK WOLAŃSKI, CZYLI JAK SPEŁNIAĆ MARZENIA MŁODOŚCI BĘDĄC CHŁOPCEM I WYNALAZCĄ KOSMICZNYCH NAPĘDÓW

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The present paper is a continuation of the article which was published in the previous edition of Polish Technical Review. It is a story about Prof. Piotr Wolański from Warsaw University of Technology, a visionary who – apart from the problems concerning combustion, explosions and space drives – was able to give the positive energy and passion to the students as well as his collaborators all over the world. How it happened that a boy from a small, mountainous settlement “reached the stars”, becoming the inspiration to the younger generations? The authoress of paper concentrates her attention on the motivating aspect, being perceived from the viewpoint of Professor as well as his pupils and also, she gives the floor to the mentor himself. According to Dante Alighieri, Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. For Piotr Wolański, born in August Sunday in 1942 in Milówka at Żywieckie district, the mentioned three paradise attributes constituted the integral company since his early childhood. Family of this extremely witty young man made their living from agriculture as well from the salary of father of Prof. Wolański – a surveyor who before the war gained the championship of Poland in chess compositions. Most probably, young Peter inherited the passion to solve the problems and gumption to science just from his father. The future Professor was not the only one child in the family as he shared the rooms with his three siblings: older brother Adam and sister Barbara and younger sister Krystyna. As it was revealed later, all of them received higher education. In their family house, a great attention was paid to development of interests and, consequently, the pressure was laid on science what was not a rule in the post-war Poland. When being a pupil of primary school, Piotr, as revealing the greatest interest in mathematics and physics and the related sciences, experienced his fi[...]

Bibliografia

[1] Wolański P. Piotr Wolański. My space activity – recollections. Scientific Publishing House of the Institute of Aviation, Warsaw, 2019.
[2] Bulletin of Warsaw University of Technology: www.biuletyn. pw.edu.pl
[3] Home page of Prof. Piotr Wolański: https://piotrwolanski.pl
[4] Polish Space Agency https://polsa.gov.pl

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