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Tadeusz Baranowski (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛ.uʐ baraˈnɔfskʲi]; September 13, 1910 in Lwów – March 24, 1993 in Wrocław) was a Polish chemist. From 1965 to 1968 he was the rector of Wrocław Medical University.
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Tadeusz Baranowski (Polish pronunciation: [taˈdɛ.uʐ baraˈnɔfskʲi]; September 13, 1910 in Lwów – March 24, 1993 in Wrocław) was a Polish chemist. From 1965 to 1968 he was the rector of Wrocław Medical University.
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Biography In 1933 he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, and then stayed at the university, under the supervision of Jakub Parnas, where he conducted research in the field of biochemistry, including studies on ammonia. In the years 1935–1937 he worked as a researcher at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, then until the outbreak of World War II at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. On April 20, 1939, he obtained his habilitation at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 1939, simultaneously with Max Perutz, he conducted the crystallisation of proteins and planned their X-ray examinations, which were not performed due to the outbreak of World War II. During the Soviet occupation, he headed the department of physiological chemistry at the Medical Institute of Lviv, and during the German occupation, the Staatliche Medizinische und Naturwissenschaftliche Fachkurse. After the liberation of Poland, he moved to Wrocław, and in 1947 he isolated and described the enzyme phosphoglycerol dehydrogenase, known then as the Baranowski enzyme, and now known as glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH). Until 1950 he was the head of the department of physiological chemistry at the University of Wrocław, and…