A brief history of the Faculty

Poznań University was officially opened on the 7th of May 1919, but the Faculty of Philosophy being the core of this newly founded university started its activity already on the 30th of January 1919. The Section of Mathematics and Natural Sciences originally within the Faculty of Philosophy became a separate Faculty in the academic year 1924/1925. The new Faculty was seated at the beginning in Collegium Minus, where the research work in physics was conducted in two Laboratories: the Laboratory of Experimental Physics and the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics. After the Second World War the laboratories were moved to Collegium Chemicum and in 1950 they were transformed into Chairs. In 1966 the Chair of Molecular Physics separated from the Chair of Experimental Physics and in 1969 the three Chairs became the Institute of Physics. At the same time the Chair of Acoustics was founded. The Institute of Physics and the Chair of Acoustics were parts of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, from which the Faculty of Chemistry evolved in 1978. In 1985 the Chair of Acoustics became the Institute of Acoustics. Further development of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics led to the emergence of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics and the Faculty of Physics in 1993. At present the Faculty of Physics includes the Institute of Acoustics, the Institute of Physics and the Astronomical Observatory, founded in 1919. The Faculty of Physics employs 26 full professors and 26 university professors. Irrespective of the international contacts of its units, the Faculty as a whole has been successfully co-operating with many university centres throughout the world.