During the session on March 3 2016 the Presidium of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP) passed a resolution concerning the announcement of the year 2017 as Marian Smoluchowski Year:

Due to the fact that the year 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the death of one of the most prominent physicists of the turn of the 19th and the 20th century, Marian Smoluchowski, the Presidium of the Polish Academic Schools Rectors appeals to the Polish Parliament for announcing the year 2017 as Marian Smoluchowski Year. 

To support this appeal, let us quote Albert Einstein’s words which conclude the obituary after Marian Smoluchowski’s death: “Fate has cut off his fruitful work as a researcher and a teacher too early … we shall, however, continue to esteem his example and his work.”