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Ignacy Mościcki was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the president of Poland when Germany invaded the country on 1 September 1939 and started World War II.
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science · President of Poland from 1926 to 1939 · chemist · politician · inventor · non-fiction writer · university teacher · also Ignacy Mościcki, Mościcki
Born 1 December 1867 · Died 2 October 1946 · Q310594
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Poranny: Ignacy Mościcki
Plejada: Ignacy Mościcki ożenił się z sekretarką zmarłej żony. Została pierwszą damą mimo oburzenia prasy
Niezalezna: Ignacy Mościcki – prezydent i chemik
Forbes Polska: Ignacy Mościcki. Wynalazca, któremu kazano być prezydentem
PolskieRadio: 155 lat temu urodził się Ignacy Mościcki, prezydent RP w latach 1926 - 1939
plock.wyborcza: Ignacy Mościcki: prezydent z Płocka
Published “Standards of Evidence: Criteria for Efficacy, Effectiveness and Dissemination” in Prevention Science — cited 917 times.
Published “PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: THE NHANES I EPIDEMIOLOGIC FOLLOW-UP STUDY” in American Journal of Epidemiology — cited 402 times.
His descendants requested that the remains of Mościcki and his wife be moved from Switzerland to Poland
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Died 1946-10-02.
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Moved to Geneva, where he worked in the Hydro-Nitro Chemical Laboratory
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Won Bronze Medal for Long Service (1938).
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Awarded Order of the White Star, Collar Class (1938).
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg (1937).
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Awarded Order of Pahlavi (1936).
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Awarded Royal Order of the Seraphim (1936).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (1936).
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum (1936).
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Awarded Estonian Red Cross Order First Class (1935).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross (1935).
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Won Honorary Medal of the Polish Red Cross (1935).
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His followers divided into three main factions: those supporting Mościcki as Piłsudski's successor, those supporting General Edward Rydz-Śmigły and those supporting Prime Minister Walery Sławek
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Won Badge of Honour of the Air and Chemical Defense League (1933).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Military Order of Christ (1931).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer (1931).
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Merit (1931).
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Awarded Cross of Independence with Swords (1930).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1930).
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Awarded 1st Class of the Order of the Cross of the Eagle (1930).
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Carol I (1929).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1929).
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Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Three Stars (1929).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary (1929).
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“Opis: wypowiedziane 4 marca 1929 na wiecu w Tarnowie. Słowa te stały się później podstawą oskarżenia przeciw Ciołkoszowi w procesie brzeskim, w którym skazano go za „działanie w celu obalenia rządu” na trzy lata więzienia.”
Awarded Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius Equal-to-apostles (1928).
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Awarded Order of Civil Merit (1928).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1928).
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Awarded Order of the White Eagle (1926).
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Career landmark: President of the Republic of Poland (1926–1939).
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Became an honorary member of the Polish Chemical Society
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Was elected rector of the Lwów Polytechnic (as it was then called), but soon moved to Warsaw to continue his research at the Warsaw Polytechnic
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Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1924).
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Mościcki moved to Lwów, in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, in Austria-Hungary, where he accepted a chair in physical chemistry and technical electrochemistry at the Lwów Polytechnic
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Was offered an assistantship at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland
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Born 1867-12-01.
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