Stanisław Wojciech Mrozowski (February 9, 1902 – February 21, 1999) was a Polish-born
American physicist
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. He was a professor of physics at
SUNY Buffalo from 1949 until 1972, after which he worked at
Ball State University. He worked briefly on the
Manhattan Project
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From 1942 to 1946, the ...
at
Princeton University
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. He received the Kosciuszko Medal in 1991 and the Officer's Cross of the
Polonia Restituta Cross in 1993.
He has been called one of "the most often published and cited physicist of interwar Poland".
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1902 births
1999 deaths
20th-century Polish physicists
Manhattan Project people
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Polish emigrants to the United States
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