Doctor Honoris Causa
of the Józef Piłsudski Academy
of Physical Education in Warsaw
1992
Professor Halina Milicerowa (1907-1995)
Graduate of CIWF (1931) and of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw (1937). She was granted her Ph.D. degree at the University of Wrocław (1951), became a senior scientist in 1954 and full professor in 1959. Since 1931, and in the years 1947-1951, she was an academic teacher at the Academy of Physical Education (CIWF/AWF), at the Institute of Anthropology of the Marie Curie University in Lublin (1945-1947), head of the Institute of Anthropology of the Research Institute of Physical Education (INKF; 1953-1971), head of the Institute of Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1965-1968), head of the Institute of Anthropology and director of the Biological Science Institute of the Academy of Physical Education (1971-1976). She was a member of many committees, scientific societies and councils, such, as the Anthropological Committee, Ontogeny Group, and Commission of Anthropometry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Board of the Polish Anthropological Society, Board of the Polish and International Biometrical Society, Scientific Board of the Institute of Anthropology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Officer of the Physical Education Committee, Scientific Board of the Mother and Child Care Institute, Commission of Physical Education within the Scientific Board of the Ministry of National Defence, member of the Editorial board for scientific periodicals in the fields of anthropology and physical education. Author of numerous fundamental interdisciplinary works in the fields of anthropology and physical education, oriented predominantly at the development of physical fitness of children and youths, as related to genetic and environmental factors, at the relation of sport results to somatic variables, selection of youths For sport career, the effects of practising sports on the body, heritability of motor abilities and features. She was heading Polish ontogenetic research within the International Biological Project, and initiated anthropological research oriented at physical education and sports.
