Marek Zawilski - 2022 IOTA Award Recipient
The 2022 IOTA David E. Laird Award goes to Marek Zawilski
Marek
Zawilski is retired associate professor in Faculty of Civil
Engineering, Architecture and Environmental Engineering of Lodz
University of Technology, Poland.
Marek is one of the founders of the Occultation Section of the Polish Amateur Astronomers Society, which was established in 1979. He was its Chairman for almost 30 years. Since late 1960s he made a significant contribution to the field of occultation sciences as the most active promoter of those phenomena in Poland. Marek authored numerous computational programs supporting the observation of occultation events in 80's and 90's, is an active participant of ESOP conferences since the 80's, and a long-term member of the IOTA/European Section.
The main interests of Marek are historical solar eclipses. Since 1990, he has been creating a monumental solar eclipse cannon, which is the catalog of historical observations of solar eclipses observed from ancient to modern times. To create this work, Marek traveled through various Polish and foreign archives, reads source texts mainly in Russian, German and Latin. A movie in which Marek presents part of his work on solar eclipses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7sYab_EKmQ
Marek is one of the founders of the Occultation Section of the Polish Amateur Astronomers Society, which was established in 1979. He was its Chairman for almost 30 years. Since late 1960s he made a significant contribution to the field of occultation sciences as the most active promoter of those phenomena in Poland. Marek authored numerous computational programs supporting the observation of occultation events in 80's and 90's, is an active participant of ESOP conferences since the 80's, and a long-term member of the IOTA/European Section.
The main interests of Marek are historical solar eclipses. Since 1990, he has been creating a monumental solar eclipse cannon, which is the catalog of historical observations of solar eclipses observed from ancient to modern times. To create this work, Marek traveled through various Polish and foreign archives, reads source texts mainly in Russian, German and Latin. A movie in which Marek presents part of his work on solar eclipses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7sYab_EKmQ