Jan Oderfeld (born February 19, 1908) is a Polish mathematician, engineer, and professor. Among the major achievements in his extremely productive career were

·   design and construction of an advanced turbine jet engine, implemented in innovative Polish planes in 1930s

·   PhD thesis in mathematical statistics under Hugo Steinhaus (1949)

·   design of magnetic drum memory in 1960s

·   long-time service as an editor of Applicationes Mathematicae, a well-known journal published by the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

·   long-time service on the faculty of the Warsaw University of Technology

 

On February 19, 2008, on his 100^th birthday, he was awarded the title Doctor Honoris Causa of the Warsaw University of Technology.

So far the Wikipedia webpage http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Oderfeld is in Polish only, but it is now being translated into English.

Professor Jan Oderfeld died on March 17, 2010, at the age of 102.