Wronski or Wroński (feminine: Wrońska, plural: Wrońscy) is a Polish surname. Czech, Ukrainian and Russian variants include Vronski and Vronsky (feminine: Vronska, Vronskaya). It may refer to:

People

* Christopher R. Wronski (1939–2017), electrical engineer who co-discovered the

Staebler–Wronski effect The Staebler–Wronski Effect (SWE) refers to light-induced metastable changes in the properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon. The defect density of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) increases with light exposure, causing an increase in ...

Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński (; ; ; 23 August 1776 – 9 August 1853) was a Polish messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, occultist and economist. In mathematics, he is known for introducing a novel series expansion ...

(1776-1853), Polish philosopher and mathematician (see

Wronskian In mathematics, the Wronskian of ''n'' differentiable functions is the determinant formed with the functions and their derivatives up to order . It was introduced in 1812 by the Polish mathematician Józef Wroński, and is used in the study of ...

) *

Peter Vronsky Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker, and investigative historian. He holds a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is the author of the bestseller true crime histor ...

, Canadian filmmaker and writer *

Petr Vronský Petr Vronský (born 4 March 1946) is a Czech people, Czech conducting, conductor, violinist and music teacher. He was born to a musical family, his grandfather Bóža Wronski (1889–1953) was an operatic tenor, his father, Karel Vronský (1918– ...

(born 1946), Czech conductor * Sergei Arkadevich Vronsky (1923-2003), Soviet and Russian cinematographer * Eugenia Vronskaya (born 1966), Russian painter

Fictional characters

* Alexei Vronsky, a character of Leo Tolstoy's novel ''

Anna Karenina ''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, Анна Каренина, p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial in ...

'' * Michael "Mike" Vronsky, one of the main characters in

Michael Cimino Michael Antonio Cimino ( , ; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American filmmaker. He achieved fame as the director of ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), which won five Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture and ...

The Deer Hunter ''The Deer Hunter'' is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended by fighting in the Vietnam War. The soldiers are played by Robert De Niro ...

People

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