Mieczysław Mąkosza, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mieczysław Mąkosza

Polish chemist

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1934

Place of Birth: Tsyeshawlye, Belarus

Profession: chemist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Mieczyslaw Józef Makosza (born 16 November 1934) is a Polish chemist specializing in organic synthesis and investigation of organic mechanisms.
Along with Jerzy Winiarski he is credited for the discovery of the aromatic vicarious nucleophilic substitution, VNS.
He also contributed to the discovery of phase transfer catalysis reactions.
From 1979 to 2005 he was director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences.