SKIBIŃSKI

POLAND (see also List of Individuals)

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1.5.1923 Warszawa/PL - 17.5.2001 Warszawa/PL

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Jan Zbigniew Skibiński graduated from the Warsaw Technical University in 1950 and in the autumn of 1950 received the engineering degree in hydraulic engineering. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, he had graduated from an underground officer cadet school, fought then in the Warsaw Uprising and was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany. In 1949 he joined the Warsaw Agricultural University Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego SGGW, first as assistant and subsequently as an associate professor. From 1957 to 1964 he collaborated with the hydrological service of the State Institute for Hydrology and Meteorology PIHM. Skibiński there headed the section of Riverbed Dynamics at its hydraulic laboratory. He designed a new model of bed-load trap. As a result, his doctoral dissertation deals with the Bed-load transport of the Vistula River in the vicinity of Warsaw. After several stays in the Soviet Union, he was appointed SGGW Lecturer in 1968.

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From 1973 to 1976 Skibiński was granted a fellowship at the Gdańsk Institute of Water Engineering, where he prepared his habilitation thesis at its Hydraulic Laboratory. The title of this research is Attempt to quantitatively estimate the transport intensity of bedload (1978). Soon afterwards he was appointed director of the Institute of Land Reclamation and Water Management at SGGW. In 1982 Skibiń ski became an associate professor of the Warsaw Technical University, and was promoted in 1991 there to full professor. He wrote four editions of his known book Hydraulics.

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_{Mikulski, Z. (2001). Jan Skibiński 1923-2001. Gospodarka Wodna 61(11): 481 (in Polish). P}

_{Mikulski, Z. (2007). Jan Skibiński. Personal communication. P}

_{Skibiński, J. (1958, 1961, 1964, 1969) Hydraulics. Wydawnictwo SGGW: Warsaw (in Polish). Skibiński, J. (1963). Transport of bed-load in Vistula in the vicinity of Warsaw. Wiad Słuźby Hydrology and Meteorology Special Issue 53: Warsaw (in Polish).}

_{Skibiński, J. (1965). Experience of river deposit measurement in Poland. Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo 35(9): 34-37 (in Russian).}

_{Skibiński, J., Banasik, K. (2002). Hydraulics in environmental engineering. Private Higher School of Environmental Protection: Warsaw - Radom (in Polish).}