August Witkowski

August Wiktor Witkowski (12 October 1854 – 21 January 1913) was a Polish physicist, professor and rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

[1] August Witkowski was born in the city of Brody, which then belonged to Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Habsburg monarchy.

[2][3][4] The secondary education he acquired in Brody in 1872, and then became a student of The Engineering Faculty of Technical University in Lviv.

The foundation of a new building of Physics Department in Jagiellonian University (finished in 1912) – was mainly Witkowski contribution.

[10] His research activities were also connected with new achievements of his Polish colleagues Zygmunt Wróblewski and Karol Olszewski who condensed and liquefied oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and other gases in a record low temperature of −225 °C (48 K).

August Witkowski aged 39 (1893)
Professor August Witkowski as a rector of Jagiellonian University (1910–1911)
August Witkowski certificate of associateship of Academy of Learning , Kraków, 1889
August Witkowski Roman Catholic grave in Rakowicki Cemetery [ 5 ]
August Witkowski 5th High School , 12 Studencka street, Kraków , Poland
Collegium Witkowskiego in Jagiellonian University (originally – the physics department, in 2017 – the history department, located at ulica Gołębia (Dove Street) 13 in Kraków , Poland)