Roman Juszkiewicz

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Roman Juszkiewicz (born 8 August 1952) is a Polish astrophysicist whose work is concerned with fundamental issues of cosmology.

Juszkiewicz was born in Warsaw. Educated at the Moscow University (a student of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich), where he graduated in 1976. In 1981 obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Warsaw. 1984-1986 at the Cambridge and Sussex universities, 1986-87 at Berkeley, 1987-1991 at Princeton, from 1989 member of the Institute for Advanced Study there. Also worked at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and the University of Geneva. Currently on the staff of N. Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Zielona Góra and the Multicultural Jacek Kuroń High School in Warsaw.

Juszkiewicz's scientific interests include the theory of gravitational instability, origins of the large-scale structure, microwave background radiation and Big Bang nucleosynthesis. He wrote nearly one hundred research papers, mostly in the area of cosmology. Calculated results based on observed motions of pairs of galaxies, obtained in 2000 by Roman Juszkiewicz and the group led by him, aimed at estimating the amount of dark matter in the Universe, were confirmed by the recently published data from the South Pole's ACBAR detector.

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Polish Wikipedia article
N. Copernicus Astronomical Center web site
Muzyka ciemnych sfer niebieskich by Piotr Cieśliński, Gazeta Wyborcza Jan. 17, 2008