About Andrzej Kossakowski
Lived 1938 – 2021 (aged 82). Andrzej Kossakowski was a Polish physicist, known for Lindbladian.
Andrzej Marek Kossakowski (20 February 1938 – 31 January 2021) was a Polish theoretical physicist and a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. He was best known for his work on open quantum systems.
Education Andrzej Kossakowski was born on 20 February 1938 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, in Ukraine). He attended a primary and secondary school in Sopot.
In the years 1955-1960, he studied physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Right after graduation, he got a job at the same university, first as an assistant, then as a senior assistant in 1962. He became a full professor in 1992.
He died in Toruń on 31 January 2021.
Recognition In 2019, Kossakowski received the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in the field of mathematics, physics, and engineering for his works on the theory of open quantum systems.
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Who was Andrzej Kossakowski?
Polish physicist (1938-2021)
When was Andrzej Kossakowski born?
Andrzej Kossakowski was born on 20 February 1938 in Lviv.
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Andrzej Kossakowski died on 31 January 2021 in Toruń.
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Andrzej Kossakowski was a physicist.
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Andrzej Kossakowski was known for Lindbladian.
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Andrzej Kossakowski was Polish.
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