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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER BECOMES MEMBER OF POLISH INSTITUTE |
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Dr. Frank Wilczek, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, was elected member of the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, by PIASA’s Board of Directors during its meeting on October 30, 2004. Dr. Wilczek who is Professor of Physics at MIT, is the second person of Polish origin who received a Nobel prize in Physics. The first person was Maria Sklodowska Curie. Other PIASA members who won the Nobel Prize include Czeslaw Milosz, Andrew Schally, Roald Hoffmann, and Issac Bashevis Singer. Dr. Wilczek is a third generation American of Polish descent who was born in Mineola, New York in 1951. He taught and performed research at Princeton University before |
joining the University of California, Santa Barbara as an astrophysicist and now at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as Herman Feshback Professor of Physics. While still a graduate student at Princeton (1972-1973) he used mathematical calculations to discover the nature of the ‘glue’ that holds nuclear subparticles together. His continued research includes high energy physics, quantum field theory and cosmological studies of matter and anti-matter. The Polish Institute, which was founded in 1942 by world class scholars and scientists like the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, the chemist Wojciech Swietoslawski and the historian Oscar Halecki, is proud to have Dr. Wilczek as one of its members. The Polish Institute’s national headquarter are at 208 E. 30th St. New York, N.Y. 10016. For over 60 years it has maintained a strong center of learning and culture, and since 1989 it has established close cooperation with Poland’s two academies, Polska Akademia Nauk (based in Warsaw) and Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci (based in Krakow). The Institute’s President is Dr. Piotr S. Wandycz and the Executive Director is Dr. Thaddeus V. Gromada
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