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Scientists of Polish descent
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The list Scientists of Polish descent includes
Adam Zamoyski, Albert Abraham Michelson, Helen Czerski, Isabella Karle and Albert Sabin.
The list consists of 52 members.
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Adam Zamoyski
Historian
Overview: Adam Stefan Zamoyski FSA FRSA FRSL (born 11 January 1949) is a British historian and author, descended from an ancient Polish noble family.
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Albert Abraham Michelson
Physicist
Overview: Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS HFRSE (December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was an American physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In ...Date of birth: 29 December 1852Date of death: 9 May 1931Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Helen Czerski
British physicist, oceanographer, and television presenter
Overview: Helen Czerski is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is a research fellow in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at ... 0
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Isabella Karle
American biophysicist
Overview: Isabella Karle (December 2, 1921 – October 3, 2017) was an American chemist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide. For her ...Date of birth: 2 December 1921Date of death: 3 October 2017Age: 95 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ScientistGender: Female 0
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Albert Sabin
Physician and epidemiologist
Overview: Albert Bruce Sabin (August 26, 1906 – March 3, 1993) was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the d ...Date of birth: 26 August 1906Date of death: 3 March 1993Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Stephanie Kwolek
American organic chemist
Overview: Stephanie Louise Kwolek (July 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014) was an American chemist who is known for inventing Kevlar. She was of Polish heritage and her career at the DuPont company spanned more than 40 years ...Date of birth: 31 July 1923Date of death: 18 June 2014Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: InventorGender: Female 0
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French scientist
Overview: Irène Joliot-Curie ( 12 September 1897 – 17 March 1956) was a French chemist, physicist, and a politician of partly Polish ancestry, the eldest daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and the wife of ...Date of birth: 12 September 1897Date of death: 17 March 1956Age: 58 (age at death)Nationality: FrenchOccupation: PhysicistGender: Female 0
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Robert Zajonc
American psychologist
Overview: Robert Bolesław Zajonc (/ˈzaɪ.ənts/ ZY-ənts; [ˈzajɔnt͡s]; November 23, 1923 – December 3, 2008) was a Polish-born American social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social ...Date of birth: 23 November 1923Date of death: 3 December 2008Age: 85 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: PsychologistGender: Male 0
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Frank Wilczek
Physicist
Overview: Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute ... 0
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Elonka Dunin
American video game developer
Overview: Elonka Dunin (born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer and cryptologist. Dunin worked at Simutronics Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri from 1990–2014, and in 2015 was Senior Producer ... 0
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Leszek Borysiewicz
Immunologist and vice-chancellor
Overview: Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz FRS FRCP FMedSci FLSW (born 13 April 1951) is a British immunologist and scientific administrator. He is currently the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University ... 0
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Leonid Hurwicz
Polish–American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
Overview: Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish-American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He originated the concept of incentive ...Date of birth: 21 August 1917Date of death: 24 June 2008Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Economist 0
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Volodymyr Antonovych
Ukrainian historian
Overview: Volodymyr Antonovych (Ukrainian: Володимир Боніфатійович Антонович, tr. Volodymyr Bonifatijovych Antonovych; Polish: Włodzimierz Antonowicz; Russian: Влади́мир Бонифа́тьевич Антоно́вич, tr. Vladímir B ...Date of birth: 30 January 1834Date of death: 21 March 1908Age: 74 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: Historian 0
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Marek Jan Chodakiewicz
Polish-American historian (born 1962)Overview: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (born July 15, 1962) is a Polish-American historian specializing in Central European history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He teaches at the Patrick Henry College and at the I ... 0
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Krystyna Kuperberg
Mathematician
Overview: Krystyna M. Kuperberg (born Krystyna M. Trybulec; 17 July 1944) is a Polish-American mathematician who currently works as a professor of mathematics at Auburn University, where she was formerly an Alumni ... 0
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Paul Baran
American-Jewish engineer
Overview: Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran ; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of ...Date of birth: 29 April 1926Date of death: 26 March 2011Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Inventor 0
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Charles T. Kowal
American astronomer
Overview: Charles Thomas Kowal (November 8, 1940 – November 28, 2011) was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System. As a staff astronomer at Caltech's Mount Wilson and ...Date of birth: 8 November 1940Date of death: 28 November 2011Age: 71 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Nikolai Przhevalsky
Russian geographer
Overview: Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (Russian: Никола́й Миха́йлович Пржева́льский; April 12 [O.S. March 31] 1839 – November 1 [O.S. October 20] 1888) was a Russian Imperial geographer and a ...Date of birth: 12 April 1839Date of death: 1 November 1888Age: 49 (age at death)Nationality: RussianOccupation: Scientist 0
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Georges Charpak
French physicist
Overview: Georges Charpak (born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.Date of birth: 1 August 1924Date of death: 29 September 2010Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: FrenchOccupation: Scientist 0
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Pierre Klossowski
French writerOverview: Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905, Paris – August 12, 2001, Paris) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger ...Date of birth: 9 August 1905Date of death: 12 August 2001Age: 96 (age at death)Nationality: FrenchOccupation: ArtistGender: Male 0
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