12 Facts About Leopold Infeld

Leopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada.

Leopold Infeld was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Leopold Infeld was born into a family of Polish Jews in Krakow, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Leopold Infeld studied physics at Krakow's Jagiellonian University and from 1920 in Berlin, where he had engaged Albert Einstein's help to gain admission to the University of Berlin.

Leopold Infeld was awarded a doctorate at the Jagiellonian University, worked as an assistant and a docent at the University of Lwow and then as a professor at the University of Toronto between 1939 and 1950.

Leopold Infeld collaborated with Albert Einstein at Princeton University.

Leopold Infeld felt he had an obligation to help science in Poland recover from the ravages of the Second World War.

Leopold Infeld served as president of the Polish Physical Society between 1955 and 1957.

Leopold Infeld was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and was widely denounced as a traitor.

Leopold Infeld's request was denied, and Infeld resigned his post.

Leopold Infeld is the author of Quest: An Autobiography and the biography Whom the Gods Love: The Story of Evariste Galois.

In New Jersey, on April 12,1939, he married a mathematician who took the name Helen Infeld and they had two children, both born in Toronto, Joan M and Eric.