Prof. Lechosław Latos-Grażyński – a winner of the Heisig Prize
This year’s winner of the Heisig Prize is prof. Lechosław Latos-Grażyński from the University of Wrocław!
On the 2nd of October, during the inauguration of 2023/2024 academic year at the University of Wrocław, the Heisig Prize was given for a second time. Its initiator and founder is prof. Norbert Heisig, professor of medical science, honorary Senator and dr h.c. of the University of Wrocław, founder and long-term president of the German-Polish Society of the University of Wrocław.
The prize was founded in 2020 and is given once every two years at the University of Wrocław for studies concerning important for the contemporary world fields, which stand out in terms of innovation, and which were widely accepted and crowned with a particular achievement. Candidates are nominated by universities which participate in Excellence Initiative – Research University programme. The prize is given to a scholar working in Poland, and its worth is PLN 200,000.
There may be only one laureate in every edition. The Heisig Prize was first given on 1st of October, 2021, to prof. Jan Potempa from the Jagiellonian University. He was awarded for discovering biochemical mechanisms of bacterial periodontium diseases connected with autoimmunological reactions, which opened new perspectives in combating Alzheimer’s disease. In the second edition, the Office of the Heisig Prize, appointed by the Senate of the University of Wrocław composed of: prof. Beata Baczyńska, prof. Piotr Biler, prof. Elżbieta Gumienna-Kontecka, dr hab. Paweł Jałoszyński, and prof. Krzysztof Redlich, nominated three people to the Prize after getting acquainted with reviews and documentation of scholarly achievements of the nominated candidates:
- prof. Mariusz Jaskólski from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, representing chemical sciences and X-ray crystallography; he was nominated in recognition of structural research on proteins important for development of medicine, and for participating in enhancement of X-ray crystallography methods;
- prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak from the Łódź Technical University, who represented technical sciences, mechanics, and electronics; he was nominated in recognition of his research on chaotic behaviour of dynamical systems in engineering sciences models;
- prof. Lechosław Latos-Grażyński from the University of Wrocław, who represented chemical sciences, organic chemistry; he was nominated in recognition of his discovery of structural variability of porphyrins, which resulted in abundance of innovative structures with high research and application potential.
The Prize Committee, appointed by the Founder in composition of: Constantin von Kessel – the Chairman of the Management Board of the Foundation of Norbert and Barbara Heisig, prof. Robert Olkiewicz – the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Zdzisław Latajka – the Rector of the University of Wrocław in 2002-2005, Jacek Sutryk – Mayor of Wrocław, and dr Maciej Łagiewski – the Director of the City Museum of Wrocław, chose the winner – the laureate of the 2nd edition of the Heisig Prize.
This year’s winner of the Heisig Prize is prof. Lechosław Latos-Grażyński from the University of Wrocław!
The prize and diplomas for the awarded were handed by the Rector of the University of Wrocław, prof. Robert Olkiewicz, and by the Chairman of the Management Board of the Foundation of Norbert and Barbara Heisig, Constantin von Kessel.
Congratulations!
Translated by Emilian Olsiewicz (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
