Doctor Honoris Causa
of the Józef Piłsudski Academy
of Physical Education in Warsaw
2002
Professor Tadeusz Bielicki
Born on 28th March 1932 in Warsaw, graduate of the University of Wrocław (1956) where he was granted the Ph.D. degree (1960) and D.Sc. degree (1968). Since 1978 - professor, corresponding member, and later a Pull member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Knowledge (PAU; 1997), since 1971 - director of the Institute of Anthropology of PAN, since 1999 - president of the Department of Natural Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the New York Academy of Sciences and honorary member of the Greek Anthropological Society. He was elected a vice-president of the European Anthropological Association (1992-1996). Holder of the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship (1959-1960), trainee at the University of California in Los Angeles. Visiting professor at the Washington State University, Wrije Universiteit Brussels, University of Texas in Austin, participant of over 40 International congresses, co-author of the UNESCO Declaration on Race and Racism. Founder of the Polish school of social anthropology. Author of numerous research works published domestically and abroad, especially in the U.S., in the fields of anthropological typology ("Typological and Population Concept of Race in Anthropology"), of the growth and adolescence processes as affected by social conditions, social stratification studied by anthropological methods ("Social Stratification of the Population of Poland"), social and regional factors contributing to a premature death of adults, adiposis and obesity, as well as on the variability of contemporary human beings ("On a Certain Peculiarity of Man as a Species"). Professor Bielicki is among the inspirers of interdisciplinary research ventures in the fields of physical anthropology and physical education, undertaken at Polish research units of physical education sciences. For many years he has Been closely co-operating with the Department of Anthropology of the Academy of Physical Education in Warsaw.
