Bolesław Konorski

Bolesław Konorski (14 April 1892 – 12 February 1986) was a Polish engineer, electrotechnician, Rector of the Lodz University of Technology in 1952–53.

He graduated from the Vienna University of Technology in 1918. In 1946 he started work at the Lodz University of Technology (TUL), where he largely contributed to the organising of the didactic process for electricians. He was a founder and then Head of the Fundamentals of Electrotechnology Departament. In the years 1948–52 he was Pro-Rector and in 1952–53 Rector of the TUL. He became full professor in 1951.

He published nearly 100 works in the field of theoretical electrotechnology in which he made a generalization of Coulomb's law and specified and expanded the concept of molecular capacity in power cables. A four volume monograph on the fundamentals of electrotechnology and theoretical electrotechnology was the first academic course-book in the field in post-war Poland. He also published a book on the elements of relativity theory and relativistic mechanics and electrodynamics. Author and editor of Kalendarzyk Elektrotechniczny.^[1]

Prof. Konorski was a co-founder of the Polish Association of Theoretical and Applied Electrotechnology, member of PAN’s Science Council in the Institute of Basic Problems in Technology and a member of Lodz Scientific Association.

In the years 1952–57 he was member of the Central Membership Committee. In 1979 he became a member of Scientific Training Association (Towarzystwo Kursów Naukowych).

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• Ewa Chojnacka; Zbigniew Piotrowski; Ryszard Przybylski (2006). Profesorowie Politechniki Łódzkiej 1945–2005 (in Polish). Łódź: Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej. p. 112. 
• Kto jest kim w Polsce 1984 (in Polish). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Interpress. pp. 420–421. ISBN 8322320736.