| LC control no. | no2009128073 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wolszczan, Alexander |
| Variant(s) | Wolszczan, Aleksander Wolszczan, Alex |
| See also | Employer: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu Employer: Zakład Astronomii (Polska-Akademia Nauk) Employer: Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Employer: Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika Employer: Cornell University Employer: Princeton University Employer: Pennsylvania State University Graduate of: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu |
| Associated country | Poland |
| Associated place | Toruń (Poland) |
| Birth date | 1946-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Szczecinek (Poland) |
| Field of activity | Astronomy Extrasolar planets |
| Affiliation | Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu Zakład Astronomii (Polska-Akademia Nauk) Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika Cornell University Princeton University Pennsylvania State University |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers College teachers |
| Found in | Planetary systems around neutron stars, 1997: t.p. (Alexander Wolszczan) OCLC, Aug. 17, 2009 (hdg.: Wolszczan, Alexander; Wolszczan, Alex; Wolszczan, Aleksander; usage: Alexander Wolszczan; Alex Wolszczan; Aleksander Wolszczan) The WSPC handbook of astronomical instrumentation, 2021: ECIP title page, volume 1 (Alex Wolszczan, The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Wikipedia, viewed November 16, 2020 (Aleksander Wolszczan (born 29 April 1946 in Szczecinek, Poland) is a Polish astronomer. He is the co-discoverer of the first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets. Wolszczan sat for an M.Sc. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1975 at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Between 1969-73 he worked at the Department of Radioastronomy of the Institute of Astronomy. In 1973, as a senior assistant, he moved to Bonn for training at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. From 1979 to 1982 he worked at the Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Toruń, and in 1982 he moved to the United States to work at Cornell University and Princeton. Later he became an astronomy professor at Pennsylvania State University. From 1994 to 2008, he was also professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. He is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Wolszczan> |
| Associated language | eng |
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