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Osman Achmatowicz (April 16, 1899 – December 4, 1988) was a Polish chemist of Lipka Tatar descent, who studied alkaloid natural products. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., (also a chemist) is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971.
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Osman Achmatowicz (April 16, 1899 – December 4, 1988) was a Polish chemist of Lipka Tatar descent, who studied alkaloid natural products. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., (also a chemist) is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971.
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Biography Professor Osman Achmatowicz was a Polish Tatar of Islamic confession. The sixth of eight children in the noble family of jurist Alexander Achmatowicz, he was born at the ancestral estate Bergaliszki, near Oszmania, on 16 March 1899. Educated at the Royal Corps in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd), he was admitted to higher studies at the Mining Institute of Petrograd in 1916. After the Bolshevik uprising interrupted the school's work, he worked temporarily as an apprentice at the Golubowka coal mine in the Donetsk Basin. In 1919, after his arrival in newly-independent Poland, he continued his studies at the resurrected Vilnius University. In 1924, he received a master of chemistry. For the next three years, he worked under the research supervision of Professor Casimir Slawinski, and graduated in 1928 with a doctorate on the terpenoid bicyclic hydrocarbon bornylene. Following graduation, the National Culture Fund of Poland sponsored him for two years as a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University's Dyson Perrins Laboratory. There, Achmatowicz worked under the supervision of Professor William Henry Perkin , and, after his death in 1929, Professor Robert Robinson of the University of London. At Oxford, Achmatowicz received a second PhD, on the structures of strychnine and…
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Ambassadorial representations Director of the Polish Cultural Institute, London (1964–1969) Represented Polish chemistry at the celebrations of the centenary of the Chemical Society, London (1964) UNESCO Paris General Assembly as a member of the Polish delegation and presided over the natural sciences section of the assembly (1954) Overseas guest of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Bristol (1955) Headed the Polish Universities delegation to Great Britain organised by the British Council (1957): received in audience by the Queen-Mother, Chancellor of the University of London. Sat on the cultural committee of the Polish-British Round Table Conference at Jablonna in 1962 and at Wilton Park in 1967.
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Meritorious awards and positions State Orders Minister of Higher Education: awarded individual State Prize of 1st degree (1964) Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland; the order of millennium (1966) for “discovering new alkaloids and studying their structure”
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Merited Culture Activist, Distinction (1969) Officer Cross of the order of “Polonia Restituta” (1951) Commander Cross of the order of “Polonia Restituta” (1954) Order of the Banner of Labor, First Class (1969) Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of Łódź (1960) Director of the Polish Cultural Institute in London (1964–1969)
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Scientific memberships and positions 1945: Polish Academy of Letters and Sciences – corresponding member
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1945: Łódź Scientific Society – member 1952: Polish Academy of Sciences – corresponding member (full member from 1961) 1980: Polish Chemical Society – honorary member (served as deputy president 1937–1939)
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Swiss Chemical Society – member Scientific board of the chemical journal Tetrahedron - member Scientific board of Index Chemicus (Philadelphia) - member Main Council of Higher Education and Qualification Commission for Scientific Staff - member (1953–1958) Counselor to the Minister of Higher Education (1960–1962)