physicist university professor
Wojcicki was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Janina Wanda Ewa Wójcicka (née Kozłowska), a bibliographer, and Franciszek Wójcicki, a lawyer He and his brother fled from Poland to Sweden with his mother at the age of 12, when communists came to power. His father remained in Poland, and was soon imprisoned for five years for being a member of the government"s main opposition party.
Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley.
They eventually arrived in the United States. He was never able to get a visa to come to the United States. He excelled in mathematics and had thought of pursuing either engineering or medicine, but decided to study physics.
He attended Harvard University on a scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor. He later attended University of California, Berkeley where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy. Wojcicki worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was a National Science Foundation fellow at European Organization of Nuclear Research and the Collège de France.
In 1966, he joined the Stanford University physics faculty where he headed the Department of Physics from 1982-1985 and 2004-2007. Wojcicki has served as an advisor to government funding agencies (United States 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.
American Physical Society.
