Professor Szczepan Szczeniowski (1898 - 1979), was a Polish

Poland

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 physicist, and author of numerous papers on cosmic rays, electron diffraction and ferromagnetism. In early 1930s, he taught at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow

Lviv University

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, in 1937 moving to the Stefan Batory University in Wilno

Vilnius University

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. After World War II

World War II

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 , he settled in Poznan

Poznan

Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

, also cooperating with the Warsaw Polytechnic. Szczeniowski was a member of many prestigious organizations - Technical Science Academy, Polish Academy of Knowledge and Polish Academy of Sciences.

Source

• http://www.ifmpan.poznan.pl/szczeniowski.php?lang=0