I undertook my education in the time of communism in Central and Eastern Europe; however, I was fortunate to have great professors from Warsaw, such as Wiktor Kemula, Jerzy Minczewski, Zygmunt Marczenko and Adam Hulanicki, and mentors from Lublin, such as Andrzej Waksmundzki, Edward Soczewiński and Zdzisław Suprynowicz. They set the tone of Polish analytical chemistry, not only in terms of scientific standards, but also aesthetic and practical. I finished my studies at the Faculty of Chemistry at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, where I first came into contact with chromatography and where I became a pioneer in Poland in the construction the first liquid chromatograph and the first HPLC columns. Here I also built the elutriator - a device to fractionate sorbents. The influence of Waksmundzki made Lublin a leader in separation methods.

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Boguslaw Buszewski

Bogusław Buszewski is full Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Head of the Chair of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland. He graduated at the Faculty of Mathematics-Physics-Chemistry of the Maria Curie Sklodowska University in Lublin. In 1986, he received his PhD at the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Slovak Technical University in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, followed in 1992 by a DrSc degree. In 1994 he became a professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and in 1999 received the title of Professor of Chemistry. He has been Humboldt Fellow at Tübingen University (Germany) and visiting professor at several universities around the world. He chaired the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 2015 to 2019 and serves on the editorial boards of 26 national and international journals. He has authored or co-authored 15 books, numerous patents (most of which have been implemented), and more than 460 scientific papers. He is one of the most cited chemists in Poland and received awards from numerous national and international organizations (including Doctor Honoris Causa).