ECHOES FROM THE PAST: PROFESSOR WITOLD RAWITA-WITANOWSKI, 1899-1945, BIOCHEMIST, NEUROPHYSIOLOGIST, AND PHARMACOLOGIST, FIRST EDITOR OF ACTA POLONIAE PHARMACEUTICA

This is a short outline, on the 80th anniversary of Acta Poloniae Pharmaceutica, which is intended to commemorate Professor Witold Rawita-Witanowski who joined its editorial board at the very beginning of the journal, and who was the last Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Warsaw in the pre-war time It is not intended to present the whole of his curriculum vitae or the whole of his research involved, but is focused on the most dramatic events by the end of his life and, on the other side, on his early, consciously elected, and internally consistent direction of research that brought him respect within the scientific community, here and abroad, throughout renowned centers of research activity.