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Voytek is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Ed Voytek (born 1935), American football player * Mary Voytek, American microbiologist * Voytek (designer) (Wojciech Roman Pawel Jerzy Szendzikowski, 1925–2014), Polish stage, television and film designer * Voytek (bear) (1942–1963), Polish Army bear mascot {{surname, Voytek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Voytek
Edward Louis Voytek (April 4, 1935 – January 16, 2016) was a National Football League (NFL) guard for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Purdue University and was drafted in the 22nd round of the 1957 NFL Draft. Voytek died on January 16, 2016, in Independence, Missouri. Early and personal life Voytek was born on April 4, 1935, in Cleveland, Ohio to parents John and Helen Voytek. He graduated from Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin School, and then attended Purdue University, where he played football. After his playing career, he went back to Purdue in order to pursue further education and received his doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1962. Playing career Voytek was drafted in 1957 by the Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) N ... d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Voytek
Dr. Mary A. Voytek is the director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.Daniella ScaliceAstrobiology – Life in the Universe – Mary Voytek – Biography. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, November 11, 2011, retrieved November 12, 2011 In 2015, Voytek formed Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), a systems science initiative by NASA, to search for life on exoplanets.Loff, Sarah (April 21, 2015).NASA’s NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds" NASA. Retrieved April 22, 2015. Voytek came to NASA from thU.S. Geological Surveyin Reston, VA, where she headed the USGS Microbiology and Molecular Ecology Laboratory from 1998 to 2009. Education B.A. in Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 1980 M.S. in Biological Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 1984 Ph.D. in Biology/Ocean Sciences, University of California, 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voytek (designer)
Voytek, or Wojciech Roman Pawel Jerzy Szendzikowski was born in Warsaw, Poland on 15 January 1925 and died in London, United Kingdom on 7 August 2014. He was a leading production designer, for British stage and television, for which he also directed, wrote and produced. Career Son of Wladyslaw, a doctor, and Maria Szendzikowski, Wojciech was born and spent his childhood and adolescence in Warsaw. As a teenage partisan during World War 2, he was awarded the Polish Cross of Valour in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Sustaining a shoulder wound, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Germany. His wartime experience left its mark on the wry humour which infused his later work, a Brechtian political irony focused on class. After liberation, Voytek walked to Italy, where he joined the exiled Polish army and formed a theatre group. Arriving in Scotland in 1946, he enrolled at Dundee Art College, before joining the Old Vic's Theatre School the following year as a stage design stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |