Roman Smoluchowski
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Roman Smoluchowski 1952 in London
Roman Smoluchowski (born 31 August 1910 in Zakopane; died 12 January 1996 in Austin, Texas)[1] was a notable physicist who worked in Poland, and after World War II settled in Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He was the son of the statistical physics pioneer Marian Smoluchowski. In 1974, Roman Smoluchowski was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1984, the minor planet 4530 Smoluchowski was named after him.[2]
References[]
- ^ Profile at geni.com
- ^ Catalogue entry at minorplanetcenter.net Database
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- 1910 births
- 1996 deaths
- 20th-century Polish physicists
- 20th-century American physicists
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
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