Andrzej Myrcha

Andrzej Myrcha (born March 15, 1939 in Siedlce, October 28, 1997) is a Polish biologist, academic teacher, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Curriculum vitae

He graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Warsaw University, where in 1962 he obtained a master's degree, and in 1966 he became a doctor. In 1962 he started working at the Mammal Research Institute in Białowieża. In 1966 he moved to the Institute of Ecology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Forest Dean. Here his research began to focus on the issues of birds. In 1978 he started work at the Institute of Branch Biology of the University of Warsaw in Bialystok. In the same year he became involved in polar expeditions. He participated in five antarctic expeditions, among others. at the station of them. Henryk Arctowski (one of them headed). During the expedition he conducted research on the penguins living there and collected the remains of the penguins. His exhibits have become the nucleus of the Białystok Collection of the University Museum of Natural History, which he has been working on since 1980. Andrzej Myrcha belonged to the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he was member of The Polar Research Committee, the Ecology Committee and the chairman of the Scientific Council of the Ecology Institute. He was also a member of the Marine Birds Ecology Working Group of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR). He authored over sixty scientific publications. He shared his professional career with his wife Alina Myrch - also a biologist and lecturer at the Białystok University.

In recognition of the merits of the Senate of the University of Bialystok, by adopting a resolution on the establishment of a natural museum on 29 September 1999, he gave the institution of his name. Bibliography

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