Marcin Kubiak
{{short description|Polish astrophysicist}}
Marcin Antoni Kubiak is a Polish astrophysicist, who obtained his professorship title on 25 April 1994. Member of the Committee of Astronomy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), co-discoverer (together with the OGLE team) of many extrasolar planetary systems (e.g. OGLE-2006-BLG-109L). Author of academic book for astronomy students titled "Stars and Interstellar Matter" (Gwiazdy i materia międzygwiazdowa). Head of the Warsaw University Observatory {{Obscode|060}}, University of Warsaw during 1986–2008. Editor of quarterly scientific journal Acta Astronomica and a chairman of Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy.
He is a co-discoverer of 471143 Dziewanna, a trans-Neptunian object and possibly a dwarf planet.
See also
- {{Section link|List of minor planet discoverers|M. Kubiak}}
References
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|title = 471143 Dziewanna (2010 EK139)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=471143
|accessdate = 7 October 2018}}
}}
External links
- [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?return_req=no_params&author=Kubiak,%20M.&db_key=AST List of publications] in Astrophysics Data System
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Category:20th-century Polish astronomers
Category:Academic staff of the University of Warsaw