Roman Smoluchowski (born 31 August 1910 in

Zakopane Zakopane ( Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been par ...

; died 12 January 1996 in

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) was a notable physicist who worked in Poland, and after World War II settled in

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the son of the statistical physics pioneer

Marian Smoluchowski Marian Smoluchowski (; 28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a pioneer of statistical physics, and an avid mountaineer. Life Born into an upper-c ...

. In 1974, Roman Smoluchowski was awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. In 1984, the minor planet 4530 Smoluchowski was named after him.Catalogue entry
at minorplanetcenter.net Database

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American Physical Society Division of Solid State Physics records of Roman Smoluchowski, 1943-1947, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
1910 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Polish physicists 20th-century American physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society {{physicist-stub