Stanisław Mrozowski
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Stanisław Wojciech Mrozowski (February 9, 1902 – February 21, 1999) was a Polish-born American
physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...
. 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
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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 {{Physicist-stub