Professor Reinhard Kulessa has passed away

With deep regret we inform that on June 13, 2024, Professor Reinhard Kulessa, an outstanding specialist in nuclear physics, Director of the Institute of Physics of the Jagiellonian University in 1988-1990 and President of the Management Board of the Polish Physical Society (2006-2009), died. Together with the late Professor Zbigniew Majka were the animators of Poland’s participation in XFEL and FAIR.

He was an outstanding scientist and teacher – Polish nuclear physics suffered a huge loss.