Kazimierz R. Czarnecki (1916 – 30 January 2005) was a Polish aeronautics engineer who worked for
NACA
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved and its assets ...
, later
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
.
Kazimierz Czarnecki immigrated to the United States in an unknown year. He graduated in 1939 from the
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la ...
. He started working with NACA that same year and remained through the renaming to NASA until his retirement in 1978 from a position as Senior Aeronautical Research Engineer.
In the 2016 film ''
Hidden Figures
''Hidden Figures'' is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder. It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction Hidden Figures (book), book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterl ...
,'' Karl Zielinski was a fictionalized version of Czarnecki featured as a wind tunnel expert. He published many papers together with
Mary W. Jackson, serving as her long-time mentor. In 1979, Jackson organized his retirement party.
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External links
NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS): Czarnecki, K R
Polish aerospace engineers
1916 births
2005 deaths
University of Alabama alumni
NASA people
Langley Research Center
Polish emigrants to the United States
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