Dawid Drozdowski

PhD in chemical sciences | ILT&SR, PAS | @PWr_Wroclaw graduate | Wroclaw, Poland | #perovskites #XRD #crystallography #materials #science

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@patrycjuszwyzga @rafal_szabla @ChemPWr Gratulacje @rafal_szabla! Zabieram się do słuchania :)

[Lives in Chemistry @livesinchem]

🌻Rest in peace, Mieczysław (Mike) Mąkosza. This hero of organic chemistry passed away at the age of 91 on January 14.
He was born on November 16, 1934, in Baranovichi—then a Polish city, today a place in Belarus. Mąkosza studied chemistry in Rostov-on-Don and later at St. Petersburg Univ. where he earned a master’s degree. He completed his PhD (1963) and habilitation (1967) at the Warsaw University of Technology @WUT_edu, where he remained until 1979, interrupted only by a postdoctoral year with Glenn Russell at Iowa State University @IowaStateU in Ames, Iowa, USA—a remarkable achievement in Cold War times.
From 1979 until his retirement in 2004, Mike Mąkosza served as Director of the Institute of Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw @ih_pan, which he led to new heights.
Already during his PhD work, he developed “two-phase catalysis,” now known as phase-transfer #catalysis (PTC). With his numerous coworkers, he went on to pioneer nucleophilic aromatic substitutions and, later in particular, vicarious nucleophilic substitution. He unravelled the mechanisms of these reactions and applied them in manifold ways, not least in industrial settings—documented in over 70 patents.
Mąkosza built bridges between chemists in East and West long before the Iron Curtain fell. He collaborated with chemists around the world, and he received five Honorary Doctorates and numerous awards, including the Humboldt Research Award in Germany in 1996.
Mąkosza changed the way #OrganicSynthesis is performed today.

[Shao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng]

George Sheldrick will be missed🕯️🕯️🕯️#SHELX @IUCr #crystallography #education

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Trying to finish a PhD but the PhD is trying to finish me.

[Łukasz Okruszek @LOkruszek]

Zaczynam wierzyć, że przejmowanie władzy nad PAN w duchu najgorszych czarnkowych pomysłów to tylko zasłona dymna mająca odwrócić uwagę od systematycznej dyskryminacji ekonomicznej instytutów @PAN_akademia i ich pracowników przez @MNiSW_GOV__PL, kolejne podwy��ki TYLKO dla uni!

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

One year later I’m still missing this place 🥹

[Melbourne, Australia @Melbourne_vic1]

Flinders Street Station 💚
#Melbourne #Australia

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@ccdc_cambridge My pleasure! I still don’t believe though 😅

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@ccdc_cambridge @EdinburghUni @SciencesNCL 🙋

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

"You're so close to finishing"

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@drFhratz Gratulacje Dawidzie! 👏

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@drFhratz @NCN_PL Dziękuję Dawidzie 😃

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

All it took was rejection at the beginning, government change, ~6 months of stressful waiting, etc… but finally it is! My first #Preludium22 research grant thanks to @NCN_PL 🥳 Project devoted to 2D #perovskites with (hopefully) fascinating properties💡🌈 #NCNtoTlen

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@SciChemKMJ @NCN_PL Dzięki! 😍

[European Athletics @EuroAthletics]

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

Natalia Kaczmarek 🇵🇱 is crowned European 400m champion in 4️⃣8️⃣.9️⃣8️⃣! 🔥

And she breaks Irena Szewinska’s legendary Polish record of 49.28 from
1976 in the process! 🥹

#Roma2024 #IgniteTheFire

[Iga Świątek @iga_swiatek]

🏆🏆🏆🏆
This.was.something.else.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

🏆🏆 Queen of Paris 🏆🏆

@iga_swiatek captures a fourth Roland-Garros title defeating Jasmine Paolini 6-2, 6-1.

#RolandGarros

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

😮

[Narodowe Centrum Nauki @NCN_PL]

Prawie 600 naukowców zrealizuje swoje badania❗️

Rada #NCN zdecydowała o sfinansowaniu wszystkich projektów z list rezerwowych w konkursach OPUS 25, PRELUDIUM 22, SONATA BIS 13, MAESTRO 15, OPUS 26+LAP/Weave i SONATA 19. https://t.co/swcDJk0TE7
@naukawpolsce @ForumAkad

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

Well...

[Shao-Liang Zheng @shaoliangzheng]

"#SpaceGroup P2/c and P2/n are just two different settings of the same space group and both structures can easily be transformed into each other"😀 but how DFPT shows P2/n one is dynamic more stable in original report?🤔🤔https://t.co/q9CHEvEQC3 @IUCr #crystallography #education

[wta @WTA]

IGA'S FINAL ACT INSIDE THE MAGIC BOX 🎩🏆🪄

World No.1 @iga_swiatek saves three match points to defeat Sabalenka in a THRILLER 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(7) for her first #MMOPEN title!!!

[Dawid Drozdowski @D_Drozdowski96]

@ThePhDPlace Maybe not a word but most accurate: 🤡