Prof. Henryk Witała from Jagiellonian University was awarded the prestigious Faddeev Medal. On 23 September 2024 Prof. Witała received his medal and gave a lecture during a special session of 23rd International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics in Beijing. Professor Henryk Witała was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Faddeev medal for his life-time achievements in few-nucleon physics, especially for solving the continuum Faddeev equations with realistic nuclear forces and comprehensive studies of three-nucleon dynamics. He also co-authored key papers on chiral forces, which are fundamental to modern nuclear physics. His research not only contributed to the understanding of complex processes in atomic nuclei, but has also provided new theoretical tools that are now being used by scientists around the world.

 The Faddeev Medal was inaugurated in 2016 by the Topical Group on Few-Body Systems & Multiparticle Dynamics of the American Physical Society and the European Research Committee on Few-Body Problems in Physics to recognize distinguished achievement in Few-Body Physics. The medal, named in honor of distinguished theoretical physicist Ludwig Faddeev, is awarded every three years to a scientist or scientists who advanced the field of Few-Body Physics significantly, either through ground-breaking research or due to crucial progress achieved over the course of a career.

More information on the web page: https://engage.aps.org/gfb/honors/prizes-awards/faddeev-medal

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.

It is with deep regret that we announce that Professor Zbigniew Majka died tonight after a long illness.
Many of us knew the Professor personally and know how much heart and commitment he put into implementing the FAIR center, which he saw as a huge opportunity for Polish science.
Thanks to his efforts, Poland joined FAIR as a shareholder and is implementing a number of tasks of key importance to the project. For many years he served as scientific director of the FAIR Joint Team in Darmstadt.
On the initiative of prof. Majki, the National Consortium of Femtophysics was established, of which he was the chairman until 2014, and in later years he was involved in all initiatives undertaken within the consortium.
His departure leaves a gap that is difficult to fill.
Funeral ceremonies will take place on May 25, 2024 (Saturday) at the Wikowyja municipal cemetery in Rzeszów at 12:30.

Piotr Salabura and Paweł Staszel