He was born in
Sadagóra,
Bukovina, in the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of Małgorzata Brodowska and Damian Rubinowicz, a Polish patriot and an insurgent of the
January Uprising of 1863. In 1908, Rubinowicz began his studies at the
University of Czernowitz, and he was awarded his doctorate in 1914. In 1916 he began postgraduate studies at the
University of Munich under
Arnold Sommerfeld and eventually becoming his assistant. In 1918, he became a
Privatdozent at the University of Czernowitz. Two years later he took an appointment as professor at the
University of Ljubljana,
Yugoslavia. He became a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of
Lwów, in 1922. During the period from 1937 to 1941, he was a professor at the John Casimir
University of Lwów. After
World War II, starting in 1946, he was professor of theoretical physics at the
University of Warsaw until 1960. He served as president of the
Polish Physical Society between 1949–1952 and 1961–1974. While at Munich, Rubinowicz published contributions to radiation theory and to three of Sommerfeld’s major interests, i.e., Sommerfeld’s extension of Bohr’s theory of the atom and both mathematical physics and diffraction theory; he carried these topical interests throughout his career. He eventually published books based on his mathematical physics interests as well as diffraction theory: his work on the polynomial method of solving eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics was described in "Sommerfeldsche Polynommethode" and his work on diffraction theory, was published in "Die Beugungswelle in der Kirchhoffschen Theorie der Beugung". one of Gustav Kirchhoff's students in Berlin. Rubinowicz’s form of the representation, as opposed to Maggi’s, is now more commonly accepted. The circle of his disciples and associates included: in
Lwów Jan Blaton,
Wanda Hanusowa,
Roman Stanisław Ingarden,
Wasyl Milianczuk,
Jerzy Rayski,
Kazimierz Vetulani; in
Warsaw:
Bohdan Karczewski,
Wojciech Królikowski,
Adam Kujawski,
Jan Petykiewicz,
Jerzy Plebański. He died in
Warsaw,
Poland. ==Books==