Ludwik Rajchman

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Ludwik J. Rajchman
Born (1881-11-01)November 1, 1881
Warsaw, Poland
Died July 13, 1965(1965-07-13) (aged 83)
Chenu, Sarthe, France
Residence Poland Poland, Switzerland Switzerland, France France
Citizenship Poland Polish
Nationality Poland Polish
Fields Bacteriology
Known for Co-founding UNICEF

Ludwik J. Rajchman (November 1, 1881, Warsaw - July 13, 1965, Chenu, Sarthe) was a Polish bacteriologist. He was born to Aleksander Rajchman, the first director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, and Melania Hirszfeld,. This was a family of assimilated Polish-Jews. While the parents were agnostic, Ludwik was baptized at birth.[1] He was one of the founders of UNICEF, and served as its first Chairman from 1946 to 1950. A cousin of Aleksander Rajchman, a Polish mathematician and Ludwik Hirszfeld, a Polish microbiologist. Father of Jan A. Rajchman, a Polish-American computer scientist, inventor of magnetic-core memory.

In 1929 and 1930-1931, he served as a medical adviser to Chiang Kai-shek and Song Ziwen. In 1931-1939, he was an expert of China's National Economic Council, which had been set up with the aid of the League of Nations to promote development. In 1940-1943, he was Song Ziwen's adviser as a special representative of China to the United States.[2]

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Further reading

  • Balinska, Marta A. (1998). For the Good of Humanity : Ludwik Rajchman, Medical Statesman (Translated by Rebecca Howell). Budapest: Central European University Press. ISBN 978-9639116177. 

References

  1. ↑ Hirszfeld, Ludwik; Balińska, Marta A.; Schneider, William Howard (2010). Ludwik Hirszfeld. University Rochester Press. p. xx. ISBN 9781580463386. 
  2. ↑ Jakub Polit, "Chiny". Wydawnictwo Trio, Warszawa 2004. p. 407. ISBN 83-88542-68-0

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Chairmen (1946–1994) and Presidents (since 1994) of the UNICEF Executive Board
Chairmen
Poland Ludwik Rajchman (1946–50), Canada Adelaide Sinclair (1951–52), Switzerland Auguste R. Lindt (1953– 54), India Balachandra Rajan (1955–56), Pakistan Mahmood Shafqat (1957–58), Australia John Ryan (1959), Switzerland F. Schnyder (1960), New Zealand W.A.E. Green (1961), Mexico Miguel E. Bustamente (1962–63), Israel Zena Harman (1964–66), Canada Joseph W. Willard (1966–68), Turkey İhsan Doğramacı (1968–70), Sweden Nils Thedin (1970–72), Philippines Narciso G. Reyes (1972–74), Switzerland Hans Conzett (1974–76), Colombia Antonio Ordoñez-Plaja (1976–77), Cameroon Ferdinand L. Oyono (1977–78), Japan Sadako Ogata (1978–79), Pakistan Zaki Hasan (1979–80), Norway Paal Bog (1980–81), Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Dragan Matelijak (1981–82), Netherlands Hugo Scheltema (1982–83), Venezuela Haydée Martínez de Osorio (1983–84), Australia Richard Manning (1984–85), Bangladesh Anwarul K. Chowdhury (1985–86), Italy Maurizio Bucci (1986–87), Lesotho A.P. Maruping (1987–88), Japan Makoto Taniguchi (1988), Norway Torild Skard (1988–89), Mexico Margarita Dieguez (1989–90), Sweden Lisbet Palme (1990–91), India Mira Seth (1991–92), Canada Frederick Ward (1992–93), Tanzania Anna Sermamba Makinda (1993–94)
Presidents
Tanzania Anna Sermamba Makinda (1993–94), Lebanon Khalil Makkawi (1995), Romania Ion Gorita (1996), Venezuela Mercedes Pulido de Briceño (1997), New Zealand Michael John Powles (1998), Nigeria Ibrahim A. Gambari (1999), Bangladesh Anwarul Karim Chowdhury (2000), Armenia Movses Abelian (2001), Colombia Andrés Franco (2002), Switzerland Jenö Staehelin (2003), Lesotho Lebohang K. Moleko (2004), Iran Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (2005), Belarus Andrei Dapkiunas (2006), Bolivia Javier Loayza Barea (2007), Sweden Andres Lidén (2008), Mali Oumar Daou (2009), Bangladesh Abulkalam Abdul Momen (2010), Slovenia Sanja Štiglic (2011), Antigua and Barbuda John W. Ashe (2012)
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