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Jan Wyżykowski (born 31 March 1917 in Haczow, died 29 October 1974 in Warsaw) was a Polish geologist, educated as a mining engineer, a specialist in the geology of copper ore deposits.
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Jan Wyżykowski (born 31 March 1917 in Haczow, died 29 October 1974 in Warsaw) was a Polish geologist, educated as a mining engineer, a specialist in the geology of copper ore deposits.
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Biography After finishing elementary school in his home town, he attended secondary school in Rozwadów. Then moved to Kraków, where in 1936 he passed his Matura exam in the Jan III Sobieski High School. Wyżykowski attended a seminary for a short period of time, while also studying opera singing under Professor Bronislaw Romaniszyn. His musical education was interrupted by a throat illness, followed by his philosophical studies at the Jagiellonian University, which were again interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. During the occupation he worked in the Social Insurance Office in Kraków. After the war Wyżykowski studied at the University of Science and Technology in Kraków. At the same time, in 1948 he started working for the Bytom Coal Industry Association, initially as an assistant, then as a traffic manager in the Łagiewniki and later Radzionków hard coal mines. There, he collected information about the technology and processing of hard coal. In 1950, on the basis of the work „Considering the problem of the advisability of building a central scrubber for coal from the Radzionków, Andalusia and Julian mines due to the size of the output of the concentrate and the amount of coal”, Wyżykowski received the title…
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Commemoration Schools in his hometown of Haczów, as well as in Krotoszyce, Głogów, Polkowice and Lubin are named after Jan Wyżykowski, and since March 2007 also the Polkowice - Sieroszowice mine shaft, located near the borehole where the Lubin copper deposit was first discovered. A monument to Jan Wyżykowski is also located in Lubin. There is an exhibition in the Regional Museum in Brzozów devoted to the life and scientific achievements of Jan Wyżykowski. Jan Wyżykowski University, based in Polkowice, is also named after him, it was established by merging the Vocational College of the Copper Belt in Lubin and the Lower Silesian School of Enterprise and Technology in Polkowice.
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Selected publications 1958, Poszukiwanie rud miedzi na obszarze strefy przedsudeckiej. Przegląd Geologiczny, 1, Warszawa. 1961, Północno-zachodni zasięg krystalinikum przedsudeckiego i możliwości poszukiwań cechsztyńskich rud miedzi w tym rejonie. Prz. Geol. 4, Warszawa. 1963, Najnowsze wyniki badań geologicznych w rejonie Kożuchowa. Prz. Geol. 4, Warszawa. 1964, Utwory czerwonego spągowca na Przedgórzu Sudetów. Prz. Geol. 7/8, Warszawa. 1964, Zagadnienie miedzionośności cechsztynu na tle budowy geologicznej strefy przedsudeckiej. Prace Instytutu Geologicznego. 1967, Kierunki poszukiwań złóż rud miedzi. Prz. Geol. 10, Warszawa. 1971, Cechsztyńska formacja miedzionośna w Polsce. Prz. Geol. 3, Warszawa.
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Literature Edward Ciuk, 1976, Jan Wyżykowski 1917-1974, Rocznik Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego, vol. XLVI, z. 4, str. 573-577, Kraków. Andrzej Rydzewski, 1996., Odkrycie złoża Lubin-Sieroszowice – wspomnienia o współpracy z Janem Wyżykowskim. Wiadomości Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego, nr 11, listopad 1996 Rydzewski A., 2002. Jan Wyżykowski. Wiadomości Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego, nr 3.