Andrzej Waksmundzki (October 3, 1910 – December 14, 1998)[1] was a Polish chemist who became well known for his work in the field of chromatography.
Andrzej Waksmundzki was born in the village of Waksmund, in Nowy Targ County as the son of a farmer.
After the closure of the Jagiellonian University by the Nazis, Dr. Waksmundzki found employment as a teacher of chemistry at the secondary Commercial School in Nowy Targ.
[2] After the war he started organizing academic life in Poland which was effectively destroyed by the Nazi and Soviet occupiers during these years.
[3] Andrzej Waksmundzki has been awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, three honorary doctorates from the Marie-Curie University, the Lublin School of Medicine and the Technical University of Lublin, as well as two state awards for his achievements in the field of chromatography and for his contribution to the technology of luminophores.