Działalność Komitetu Elektryfikacji Polski PAN w latach 1956-1961

Opisano historię powstania, organizację i program prac oraz dorobek naukowy Komitetu Elektryfikacji Polski przy Prezydium Polskiej Akademii Nauk, działającego w latach 1956-1961. Przedstawiono sylwetki założycieli i członków kierownictwa Komitetu oraz tematykę najważniejszych prac opublikowanych w pięcioletnim okresie działalności KEP PAN.

The Committee on the Electrification of Poland was set up by the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in 1956. Professor Lucjan Nehrebecki was appointed as General Secretary of the Committee and Professor Zygfryd Jung was Head of the Centre of Studies. Six scientific commissions were formed to prepare reports on the questions of electric energy demand and the development of new power plants and transmission lines. More than 300 papers concerning different aspects of the electrification programme were published in the five-year period of the Committee's activity up to 1961. In that time, fifteen Ph.D. theses were sponsored by the Committee and its scientific commissions. The PAS Committee on the Electrification of Poland accomplished its mission in 1961, but it has been continued since then by the new Committee on Energy Issues set up by the PAS Praesidium in 1962 and again in 1974.