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
100th 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.