Lviv period for Smoluchowski: Science, teaching, and beyond

A major part of Marian Smoluchowski's achievements in science corresponds to the period of his work at the University of Lviv. Since this part is well described in the literature, in the paper the emphasis is made on some less known activities of this outstanding scientist: his teaching, his organizational efforts, and even his hobbies. The list of publications corresponding to the Lviv period is given.


Starting work in Lviv
Marian Smoluchowski moved to the University of Lviv 2 , being persuaded by Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), a Polish philosopher and logician, who also attended Collegium Theresianum [7]. Smoluchowski was thought to lecture subjects in theoretical and mathematical physics replacing Professor Oskar Fabian, the first head of the Department for Theoretical Physics, who was already seriously ill at that time and died later in October 1899 [8].
Smoluchowski's request to the University Collegium of Professors is reproduced below [9]:  2 The city, also known as Lwów in Polish and Lemberg in German, belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire at that time.
In 1908 he was elected a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Skills in Kraków (in Polish: Akademia Umiejętności, which is also translated into English as Academy of Sciences and Letters), becoming a full member in 1917. Also in 1908 Smoluchowski was awarded the Haitinger prize of the Vienna Academy of Sciences for the theoretical explanation of the Brownian motion. In 1909 he was appointed a member of The Imperial and Royal Commission for Weights and Measures (k. und k. Normal-Eichungs-Kommission) in Vienna [10, p. 524].   and son Roman , who also became a physicist, working as a professor at the universities of Princeton and Austin (USA).
Two addresses where the Smoluchowskis lived in Lviv can be found in address books of that period [11,12]

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The Department for Theoretical Physics at that time was situated in the newly built (1897) Institute of Physics. The cabinet for professors of mathematics and theoretical physics was located on the ground floor, next door to the small lecture hall for students of mathematics, theoretical physics, and geography [14, p. 241-42], see figure 4. Figure 4. Department location. "T" marks the room for professors of mathematics and theoretical physics, "L" marks the small lecture hall for students of mathematics, theoretical physics, and geography.
Lviv period was the most productive in the scientific work of Marian Smoluchowski. This topic is well described and analyzed in the literature, see for instance [1-5, 15, 16], and does not require additional commentaries. Only a brief account of the breadth of his academic interests is thus given. Marian Smoluchowski worked in various domains: kinetic theory, in particular Brownian motion; phenomena of kataphoresis, electrophoresis, and coagulation; hydrodynamics of viscous liquids; properties of atmospheres of Earth and planets; formation of mountains; etc. More insight about the subjects of his work can be obtained upon analyzing the list of publications from the Lviv period given in section 4. Curiously enough, there was a practice in the University of Lviv, at least among students of physics and mathematics, to publish texts of lectures (upon approval of a lecturer). These books were handwritten and illustrated, then self-published by the Mathematical-Physical Circle (Kółko matematycznofizyczne in Polish), presumably in several dozens of copies. The technique of anastatic printing (lithography) was used for copying, see figure 5.

Teaching
In 1917, Marian Smoluchowski wrote a major part of Poradnik dla samouków [Guidebook for Self-Instruction], which was also co-authored by Maurycy Pius Rudzki and Romuald Merecki.

Smoluchowski's publications from the Lviv period
The following list is, to my knowledge, the most complete information on Marian Smoluchowski's publications during his stay in Lviv. The only doubt concerns item 88, which can already belong to the Kraków period (no affiliation is mentioned in this paper), while the trip described therein occurred still during the Lviv period. The detailed information (being updated as necessary) is available [17].