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Stanisław Lem’s son became a physicist and translator

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. An imagined young scholar at a study desk evokes Tomasz Lem’s physics education and later work with books; it is not a portrait of Tomasz.

AI-generated illustrative reconstruction of a physics lecture in a historic Vienna university setting, representing Lem’s studies in physics and mathematics.

AI-generated illustrative reconstruction of a literary translator’s desk, with English books and a marked-up manuscript evoking English-to-Polish translation.

documentary portrait of Stanisław Lem in 1966 with a mechanical toy and books. Courtesy of his secretary Wojciech Zemek; Wikimedia Commons records permission from the Lem estate and CC BY-SA 3.0 (also GFDL). Use CC BY-SA 3.0. Attribution: Stanisław Lem / courtesy of Wojciech Zemek / CC BY-SA 3.0. No edits. [Original asset page](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem.jpg).

documentary portrait of Stanisław Lem by Mariusz Kubik, 30 October 2005. Wikimedia Commons lists CC BY-SA 3.0 and CC BY 2.5; use CC BY 2.5. Attribution: Mariusz Kubik / CC BY 2.5. No edits. [Original asset page](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanislaw_Lem_by_Kubik.JPG).

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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. An imagined young scholar at a study desk evokes Tomasz Lem’s physics education and later work with books; it is not a portrait of Tomasz.

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Tomasz Lem, the only son of Stanisław and Barbara Lem, was born in Kraków on 14 March 1968. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna and later graduated in physics from Princeton University. After his studies, Tomasz worked as an English-to-Polish translator and wrote a memoir about his father.