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About Wiesław Z. Wiśniewski
- Wieslaw Z.
- Wisniewski (May 2, 1931 in Poland – February 28, 1994 in Tucson, Arizona, United States) was a Polish astronomer.
- Wisniewski was born and educated in Poland.
- He survived the Nazi occupation and many of his later insights and viewpoints may have grown from the hardships suffered during the war and the years afterwards.
- He began his career as a high school mathematics teacher before receiving his M.A.
- degree in astronomy from Poznan University in 1952 and his D.Sc.
- degree in astronomy from Jagiellonian University, Poland, in 1962.
- He joined the staff of the Cracow Observatory at Jagiellonian University as a research assistant in 1953.
- Wisniewski moved to the United States in 1963 to work as an astronomy professor at the newly founded Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson Arizona.
- Wisniewski returned to Poland in 1967, but eventually made his permanent home in Tucson, Arizona in 1971.His main interests were comets and asteroids.
- Wisniewski was heavily involved in astronomical photometry which he learned while working with Harold Johnson at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
- His later years were occupied with observations of asteroids and comets, especially of the light-curves of small asteroids as well as taxonomic measurements of asteroids.
- At the time of his death, he was actively planning to participate in a network of telescopes to observe the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter.
- He had obtained one of the early high resolution images of the comet on March 28, 1993 while using the Steward Observatory 90 inch telescope.
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