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Do you know the person your street was named after?
Emil GODLEWSKI, born in 1847 in Krasocin, died in 1930 in Krakow, a botanist, agricultural chemist, a co-creator of Polish physiology of plants. He studied natural sciences at the Main School in Warsaw and at universities in Jena and Würzburg (in 1872 he obtained his PhD degree at the University of Jena), a professor (1874), the head of the Department of Botany at the University of Lvov (1878-1891) and University of Agriculture in Dublany (1878-1891).He was a co-founder and for a long time a director of the Agricultural College at the Jagiellonian University (1892-1908), a professor of the Department of Agricultural Chemistry UJ (1891-1919), a head of the Agricultural Department at the State Institute of Agriculture in Puławy (1920-1927). He was a member of many scientific associations in Poland and abroad, among others: AU and PAU, Société Nationale d'Agriculture de France, Académie des Sciences de L'Institut de France. He was one of the pioneers in the area of plant physiology. As one of the first researchers of the photosynthesis process, he analysed the influence of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air on the intensity of this process. He proved that starch is the primary product of photosynthesis. He is one of the discoverers of the anaerobic breathing in plants. He also carried out research on, among others, the water economy of plants and nutrition of nitrification bacteria (nitrificators). He was the author of many pioneering works and a textbook " Leading thoughts on physiology of plants” (vol. 1-2, 1923, 1932). He organized the first Polish scientific school in the area of physiology of plants and agricultural chemistry. In popular articles he promoted the ideas of scientific agriculture, he took part in organizing modern studies on agriculture (at the University of Agriculture in Dublany and at the College of Agriculture at the Jagiellonian University).
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