Abstract
It is with great sadness that we inform our readers about the recent death
of Professor Stefan Ernst. Stefan Ernst was born in Piaśniki, Upper
Silesia, on November 03, 1934, to parents of Polish-German descent. His
primary education started during the war at a German-speaking school in
Wirek and continued in Olesno, where he also got his secondary education.
As chemistry studies were not yet available at the University ofWrocław in
1953, he started studying biology and switched to chemistry a year later.
He received his master’s degree in chemistry in 1959, as one of the first
graduates in that major. Then, he started his work on application of
thermodynamics and molecular acoustics in investigation of liquid phases
under the guidance of the Prof. Bogusława Jeżowska-Trzebiatowska. On 28
November 1967, he defended his PhD thesis entitled
“Association-Dissociation Equilibria and the Structure of Uranyl Compounds
in Organic Solvents” at the University of Wrocław. Professor Stefan Ernst
was a linguist, a polyglot, a renowned thermodynamisist and a researcher
of molecular acoustics. With great regret and shock we have learned of his
sudden and unexpected death on August 03, 2014, in a hospital in Kraków.
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