Marcin Kubiak


Marcin Antoni Kubiak is a Polish astrophysicist, who obtained his professorship title on 25 April 1994. Member of Committee of Astronomy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, co-discoverer of many extrasolar planetary systems. Author of widely used academic book for astronomy students "Stars and interstellar matter". Head of the Warsaw University Observatory, University of Warsaw during 1986–2008. Editor of quarterly scientific journal Acta Astronomica and a chairman of Copernicus Foundation for Polish Astronomy.
He is a co-discoverer of 471143 Dziewanna, a trans-Neptunian object and possibly a dwarf planet.