Gregory Malanowski

Gregory Malanowski 82, passed away on 2/24/2018 of natural causes. He was professionally involved in the development of electronics and radio technology for over fifty years. He graduated from the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute as a radio engineer. For three years he was employed by the state broadcasting station (Polskie Radio), then by the state sound recording company (Polskie Nagrania), and eventually by the Department of Electronics at the Warsaw Polytechnic Institute. He also received professional training at the Telefunken Company in Germany and at the Ortofon Company in Denmark. He pursued a Ph. D. in medical electronics for four years and completed his thesis on the automatic analysis of brain activity. However, taking advantage of an unexpected opportunity, he defected from communist Poland in 1980 with his family to the United States just prior to defending his thesis. Since moving to Colorado in 1980 he worked in designing electronic industrial control systems for over 20 years. He was also the owner of Control Systems Engineering, an electronics consulting company in Boulder, Colorado. He has published over 20 technical papers on electronics in Poland and two in Britain. He published a book, “The Race for Wireless” in 2011. He owned 13 patents covering inventions in various areas of electronics and radio engineering. In 1968 he was granted the highest Polish National Award for accomplishments in the area of technology. In his retirement Gregory stayed busy writing articles for “Zycie Kolorado."" Gregory was an avid skier, hiker, tennis player and sailor. He is survived by his wife, Andrea, daughter, Eva, son, Christopher, grandson, Leo, daughter-in-law, Kami, son-in-law, Tom, and sister, Teresa. Services will be held at Sacred Heart of Mary church in Boulder on March 17th, 11:00 A.M. with a reception following the service at the family home. Donations can be made in Gregory’s name to the Boulder Humane Society.