Science and Higher Education Lena Kolarska-Bobinska were among the honorary committee of the jubilee. The culmination point was the ceremony of conferring an honorary doctorate of Gdańsk Tech on world-renowned professor of chemistry Robert Cava from Princeton University. The main ceremony ended with the concert at the Polish Baltic Philharmonic. The symphony orchestra of PBP with the Gdańsk Tech and Poznań University of Technology choirs performed the oratorio Quo vadis by Feliks Nowowiejski. The next days the Gdańsk Tech organised a meeting with members of the European Federation of National Engineering Associations. Notable alumni Bodo von Borries (1905—1956), German physicist, co-inventor of electron microscope Zygmunt Choreń (born 1941), naval architect Jaroslaw Drelich (1957), surface engineer, professor at the Michigan Technological University Abraham Esau (1884–1955), German physicist Andrzej Gwiazda (born 1935), anti-communist activist and physicist Richard B. Hetnarski (born 1928), Polish-American mechanical engineer Tomasz Imieliński (born 1954), Polish-American computer scientist Michał Kalecki (1899–1970), Marxian economist, "one of the most distinguished economists of the 20th century" Włodzimierz Julian Korab-Karpowicz (born 1953), philosopher and political theorist Janusz Liberkowski (born 1953), inventor Lâm Quang Mỹ (born 1944), Polish-Vietnamese physicist and poet Jacek Namieśnik (1949–2019), chemist Janusz Pawliszyn (born 1954), chemist Marek Piechocki (born 1961), civil engineer, co-founder of LPP Group Kazimierz Piechowski (1919–2017), engineer Janusz Smulko (born 1964), electronics engineer Wojciech Szpankowski (born 1952), computer scientist Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska (1921–2018) electronics engineer References External links University website The buildings of the university International Office U-Multirank Ranking http://www.nauka.gov.pl/ Universities and colleges in Gdańsk Engineering universities and colleges in Poland Educational institutions established in 1904 1904 establishments in Germany