Professor Andrzej Kowalczyk Celebration Gala

On September 15 th 2018, the Institute of Physics at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, held a special event to celebrate the academic achievements of Professor Andrzej Kowalczyk, on the occasion of his retirement. Professor Kowalczyk has been a great mentor, teacher, scholar and ambassador of science over his lengthy career. At the conclusion of his PhD thesis viva voce on spectroscopy, the great Jabłoński, the grandfather of fluorescence, said “Too much Chemistry, Dr Kowalczyk!” A great part of his scientific work has, indeed, been devoted to the development of spectral domain optical coherence tomography – pure optics, and his ...