Andrzej Krzywicki
Andrzej (André) Tadeusz Krzywicki (born October 17, 1937 in Warsaw ; died June 2, 2014 in Paris ) was a Polish-French physicist.
Life
Andrzej Krzywicki was one of two sons of Jerzy Krzywicki, a son of the sociologist Ludwik Krzywicki , and the feminist Irena Krzywicka . His father was believed to have been the victim of the Soviet Katyn massacre in 1940 . He and his mother survived the German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1944 in hiding.
Krzywicki studied at the University of Warsaw , received a Magister in 1959 and a PhD in 1961. In 1963 he went to CERN in Geneva on a Ford Foundation grant and never returned to Poland. In 1964 he became a research assistant at the Université Paris-Sud , where he became an assistant professor in 1966 and a professor in 1990. Krzywicki retired in 2003.
Krzywicki published a number of scientific journal articles. From 1979 to 1987 he was a member of the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für Physik . His textbook on mathematics, written with Philippe Dennery, found dissemination in universities. In 1972 he was a guest at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld and in 1989 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory . He was a member of the Société française de physique .
Krzywicki wrote an autobiography and translated into Polish the report L'aube le soir ou la nuit that Yasmina Reza published in 2007 on Nicolas Sarkozy .
Fonts (selection)
- André Krzywicki, Philippe Dennery: Mathematics for physicists . New York: Harper and Row, 1967 ISBN 978-0486691930
- Andrzej Krzywicki: Diabelski Młyn . Czytelnik, 2005 ISBN 978-83-07-03019-7
- André Krzywicki: Un improbable chemin de vie . L'Harmattan, 2006 ISBN 2-296-01193-4
literature
- Irena Krzywicka: Wyznania gorszycielki . Autobiography. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1992, ISBN 83-07-02261-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Andrzej Krzywicki in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Andrzej Krzywicki in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Andrzej (André) Tadeusz Krzywicki , at Nauka Polska
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yasmina Reza: Świt wieczór lub noc . Translation by Andrzej Krzywicki. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 2008 ISBN 978-83-07-03151-4 , WorldCat entry
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krzywicki, Andrzej |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krzywicki, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd June 2014 |
| Place of death | Paris |