Stanley Wojcicki

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Stanley George Wojcicki[1] (born Stanisław Wójcicki; March 30, 1937) is a Polish American emeritus professor and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California, United States.[2]

Early life and education

Wojcicki was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Janina Wanda Ewa (née Kozlowska), a bibliographer, and Franciszek Wojcicki, a lawyer.[1][3] He fled from Poland to Sweden with his mother at the age of 12, when communists came to power.[4] He graduated from Harvard University with a BA and later University of California, Berkeley where he earned a PhD.[5]

Career

Wojcicki worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was a National Science Foundation fellow at CERN and the Collège de France. In 1966, he joined the Stanford University physics faculty where he headed the Department of Physics from 1982–85 and 2004-2007.[5]

Wojcicki has served as an advisor to government funding agencies (US and foreign) as well as to several high energy physics laboratories. He also headed the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on particle physics matters.[5]

Personal life

Stanley Wojcicki is the husband of fellow educator Esther Wojcicki, whom he met at UC-Berkeley. They have three children and seven grandchildren.[6]

In 2010, his daughter Anne and her husband Sergey Brin, endowed a $2.5 million chair in experimental physics at Stanford in her father's name.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1
  2. ↑ "Stanley Wojcicki - Stanford University Physics Faculty page". Retrieved 07/08/2012. 
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-s-Wojcicki-family-honored-4415518.php
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Stanford Department of Physics: "Endowed Chairs and Professorships: Stanley G. Wojcicki Chair in Physics: First Endowed Chair in Experimental Physics Honors Beloved Professor" retrieved September 22, 2012
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Esther Wojcicki retrieved September 21, 2012
  7. ↑ "Google Names Susan Wojcicki CEO of YouTube". Variety. Retrieved February 5, 2014. 
  8. ↑ USA Today: "The house that helped build Google" By Jefferson Graham July 5, 2007
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