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HENRYK GÓRECKI – THE MAN WHO MADE AGH, A UNIVERSITY ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS THE ACADEMY OF COAL AND STEEL, FAMOUS IN AUTOMATION, ELECTRONICS, IT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

HENRYK GÓRECKI – CZŁOWIEK, KTÓRY AGH, UCZELNIĘ PIERWOTNIE ZNANĄ JAKO AKADEMIA WĘGLA I STALI, UCZYNIŁ SŁAWNĄ W AUTOMATYCE, ELEKTRONICE, INFORMATYCE, TELEKOMUNIKACJI I INŻYNIERII BIOMEDYCZNEJ

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Professor Henryk Górecki, about whose achievements I would like to tell in this paper, was the prominent scientist and engineer, graduate and worker of AGH University of Kraków for all His life. AGH is one of the greatest Polish technological universities. Prof. Górecki performed great transformations in the history of the international science, made the extreme contribution to development of Polish engineering, conducted the radical changes in his alma mater and, also, created my own career and life. Therefore, when on December, 20, 2022, I had the occasion to speak at his open grave, I commenced from the following words: – It is the end of certain epoch..... It is true that together with the passing away of Prof. Górecki, a certain epoch has been ended in the history of AHG and in the domain of automation. We used to speak about one of the Polish Kings that he “found Poland in wood and left it in brick”. We may say about Professor Górecki that he found the Electric Department of AGH as being highly mining-metallurgy-oriented unit and left it as a department famous of its achievements in respect of automation, electronics, computer science, telecommunication and biomedical engineering. He performed it owing to extreme wisdom, patient work and persistence in his deeds. When he graduated in 1950, he commenced to work at the Chair of Mining Electrification. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1956 and obtained the post of associate professor and began to implement his great ideas. In 1957, he founded the Department of Automatics Backgrounds. At the beginning, the mentioned unit had only three employees but had the enormous intellectual potential which made that as early as in 1960 it became developed and transformed into the Chair of Automatics and Industrial Electronics. For Professor Górecki, the word “impossible” did not exist. When he encountered the obstacles, he tried the unusual but effective sol[...]

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[1] https://historia.agh.edu.pl/wiki/Henryk_G%C3%B3recki
[2] https://iet.agh.edu.pl/pozegnanie-sp-profesora-henryka-goreckiego/
[3] http://bulletin.pan.pl/%2856-4%29misc.pdf
[4] https://www.academia.edu/35508125/Profesor_Henryk_G%C3%B3recki_wielki_uczony_-_niezwyk%C5%82a_osobowo%C5%9B%C4%87.

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