Janusz Leon Wiśniewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Polish chemist

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1954

Place of Birth: Toruń, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Profession: writer, computer scientist, author, chemist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Janusz Leon Wisniewski (born 18 August 1954 in Torun) is a Polish scientist and writer mostly known for his novel S@motnosc w Sieci translated into English as Loneliness on the Net[1].
Wisniewski holds a Master in Physics and Master in Economics, both qualifications obtained from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, PhD in Information Technology from Warsaw University of Technology and Habilitation in Chemistry from the Technical University of Lódz.
He is one of the authors of the computer program AutoNom, a naming tool for organic substances in the IUPAC nomenclature [2].
Currently Wisniewski lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany.
Apart from his native Polish, he is also fluent in German, English and Russian. His most famous novel S@motnosc w Sieci (Loneliness on the Net) was published in 2001 and translated into many languages.
There is a popular Polish film based on the novel.