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Stanley George Wojcicki [1] (/ ˌ v uː ɪ ˈ tʃ ɪ t s k i / VOO-ih-CHITS-kee; [2] born Stanisław Jerzy Wójcicki, Polish: [vujˈt͡ɕit͡skʲi]; March 30, 1937 – May 31, 2023) [3] was a Polish-American physicist and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California. [4]
Kowalski has authored and co-authored nearly 100 scholarly papers on Physics, a textbook on Physics, and two books on Stalinism. In January 2011, Hoover Institution archived his original notebook diaries (in Polish), letters, and personal documents and photographs. [1] His papers can be found online. [5] His presentations can be found online. [6]
John Joseph Hopfield (born Jan Józef Chmielewski; July 8, 1891 – January 8, 1953) was a Polish-American physicist.Hopfield's published research included vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy and solar ultraviolet spectroscopy.
Tomasz Skwarnicki is a Polish-American physicist and professor at Syracuse University. He is known for his research on gravitational wave detectors, experimental elementary particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment (LHCb), and pentaquarks. [2] [3]
Ludwik Silberstein (May 17, 1872 – January 17, 1948) was a Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924.
Polish polymath Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. This is a list of Polish inventors and discoverers. The following incomplete list comprises people from Poland and of Polish origin, and also people of predominantly Polish heritage, in alphabetical order of ...
Kazimierz Fajans (Kasimir Fajans in many American publications; 27 May 1887 – 18 May 1975) was a Polish-American physical chemist, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the co-discoverer of chemical element protactinium.
Mark Kac (/ k ɑː t s / KAHTS; Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish-American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the ...