Stanisław Konturek

Stanisław Konturek was a Polish physiologist and gastroenterologist, born on 8 October 1931 and died on 8 August 2019. He was a professor at the Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum and a member of both the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Polish Academy of Learning, so his career joined the laboratory study of how the body works with the clinical field of digestive medicine. Poland honoured him repeatedly: the Gold Cross of Merit in 1974, the Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta in 1982, the Officer's Cross of the same order in 2001 and its Commander's Cross in 2018. He also received the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in 1995, the City of Kraków Award in 1997, and honorary degrees from the medical universities of Białystok, Wrocław and Łódź and from the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. He was buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery.