Award for rector Jan Sobczyk
We are pleased to announce that during today’s UWr Rector’s College, prof. dr hab Jan Sobczyk, who served as UWr Rector from March to June 2022, received from Wojciech Murdzek, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education and Science, the First Degree Minister’s Award for significant achievements in organizational activities.
Prof. dr hab. Jan Sobczyk (born 19 October, 1955 in Wrocław)
Theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Wrocław, specialist in particle physics. Member of the T2K international experimental group located in Japan. Author and co-author of more than 150 scientific papers. Head of the Department of Neutrino Physics at the University of Wrocław. He is engaged in theoretical studies of neutrino interactions, while taking part in measurements carried out by experimental groups. His work focuses on increasing the precision of important experiments measuring neutrino oscillations. He has proposed new measurable quantities that make it possible to study nuclear effects in neutrino interactions. The most important experimental work was published by the American MINERvA group in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters [X. Lu et al, PRL, 121 (2018) 022504] – one of the co-authors is prof. J. Sobczyk. The most important diagrams in this paper show the “reconstructed neutron momentum,” a quantity proposed in an earlier publication by prof. J. Sobczyk [A. Furmanski, J.T. Sobczyk, Physical Review C95 (2017) 065501].
Professor Jan Sobczyk was an activist of the SKS in Wroclaw from 1977 to 1980. In 1979, he co-edited the SKS magazine “Podaj Dalej” [„Pass it On”] and was the initiator of the conversion of this title into “Academic Information Magazine.” In November 1979, he was a participant in the demonstration at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
In August 1980, with his publishing activities, he supported the strike at the Depot at ul. Grabiszyńska in Wrocław. In September and October 1980, he was a member of the NZS Provisional Founding Committee. He was a co-founder and member of the editorial team of the Wrocław NZS magazine “No Więc” [“Okay So”]. In 1981, an employee of the Lower Silesia Union, responsible for managing the Union’s magazine “Z Dnia na Dzień” [„From Day to Day”].
Interned in December 1981, released in October 1982. Since 1987 employee of the University of Wrocław. In May 1988, took part in the student strike. In April 1989, he co-founded the Democratic Center association. From 1989 to 1993, he was a member of the “Solidarity” CC at UWr.
Awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Rebirth of Poland (2007).
Translated by Katarzyna Dorodna (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
