Stanley Wojcicki's father remained in Poland, and was imprisoned for five years for being a member of the government's main opposition party.
11 Facts About Stanley Wojcicki
1.
2.
Stanley Wojcicki was never able to gain a visa to come to the United States.
3.
Stanley Wojcicki excelled in mathematics and had thought of pursuing either engineering or medicine, but decided to study physics.
4.
Stanley Wojcicki attended Harvard University on a scholarship and graduated with a BA.
5.
Stanley Wojcicki later attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a PhD.
6.
Stanley Wojcicki worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and was a National Science Foundation fellow at CERN and the College de France.
7.
Stanley Wojcicki served as an advisor to government funding agencies as well as to several high energy physics laboratories.
Related searches
Esther Wojcicki 8.
Stanley Wojcicki headed the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation on particle physics matters.
9.
Stanley Wojcicki led the HEPAP subpanel New Facilities for the US High-Energy Physics Program which recommended building the Super Conducting Super Collilder in 1983.
10.
Stanley Wojcicki was the husband of fellow educator Esther Wojcicki, whom he met at UC Berkeley, and married in 1962.
11.
Stanley Wojcicki died at his residence in Los Altos, California, on May 31,2023, at the age of 86.