The 80’s | 70 years of IBB |

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🟢 Prof. Andrzej Paszewski was the first director in the history of IBB who was formally elected by the Scientific Council and then approved by the Polish Academy of Sciences. This was an important change from previous practice.

🟢 Soon the Institute had to face the challenges of the martial law, and a director who had the support of his community was better equipped to respond to this situation.

🟢 Despite the initial shock, the Institute's “Solidarity” did not give up, they calmly undertook illegal activities, distributed underground publications and collected union membership fees.

🟢 In the early 1980s, the working conditions in the Institute's laboratories were getting worse and worse, in the end they did not meet basic standards of health and fire safety.

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