Zbigniew Sujkowski – uczony i żołnierz

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Zbigniew Sujkowski – scientist and soldier.A b s t r a c t. Zbigniew Sujkowski was a co-founder of Polish sedimentary petrography and a pioneer of sedimentology. After studying geology at the University of Warsaw (1921–1925), he worked in 1927–1929 withProf. Lucien Cayeux at Collège de France in Paris. He specialized in petrographic-sedimentological studiesof Cretaceous deposits in Poland, but especially of siliceous rocks. His treatise on diagenesis, published posthumously in 1958, is among the classics of world geological literature. Zbigniew Sujkowski was a Polish patriot. In the period 1914–1920, he participated in the armed struggle for the independence of Poland, and during World War II – in the armed resistance movement against German occupation as the organizer of subversion. At the end of the war, he was in London; his return to Poland was impossible from political reasons. Sujkowski immigrated to Canada and took a job at MacMaster University in Hamilton. He died tragically in an accident.