Stanislaw M. Cholewinski
Stanislaw M. Cholewinski (1880-1936)
1936 Obituary [1]
M. Cholewinski, eminent Polish metallurgist and inventor, Director of the "Babbitt" works, Warsaw, died in Warsaw on September 28, 1936.
He was born on April 25, 1880. Since 1908, in response to the demand in Poland for anti-friction metals, he had been conducting researches on these alloys and had discovered eight new phosphor bearing metals.
In 1910 he established in Warsaw the foundry in which are still produced anti-friction metals of his own invention for the Polish (formerly Russian) State Railway and industrial purposes.
Since 1927 M. Cholewinski had carried out much work on the alloys of aluminium and light metal castings for the Polish aeroplane and automobile industries.
M. Cholewinski was known as a man of generous heart; by his death Poland has lost one of her best sons and workers.
He was elected a member of the Institute of Metals on October 26, 1933.