Andrew Wojcicki
Chemistry educator
Born May 5, 1935, Warsaw, Poland; married Marba (Hart); children: Katherine, Christina.
Education: Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Brown University, Providence (RI), 1956; Ph.D., Northwestern University, Evanston (IL), 1960.
Career: assistant prof., 1961-66, associate prof., 1966-69, prof., 1969 -, chairman, 1981-82, associate chairman, 1982-83, 1984-86, Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus; visiting prof., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (OH), 1967, University of Veszprem (Hungary), 1983, University of Bologna (Italy), 1988, University of Wroclaw (Poland), 1990; visiting scholar, University of London (United Kingdom), 1969, University of California, Berkeley, 1984.
Author: over 160 research publications in professional journals; over 170 presentations at universities, industrial laboratories and scientific meetings.
Member of: international advisory committee, 7th and 9th International Conferences on Organometallic Chemistry, Venice (Italy), 1975, Dijon (France), 1979; active member, American Chemical Society.
Honors: fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1960-61, Guggenheim Foundation, 1976; Senior United States Scientist award, Humboldt Foundation, 1975; Distinguished Peter A. Leermakers Lecturer, Wesleyan University, Middletown (CT), 1975; Distinguished Teaching Award, Ohio State University Alumni Association.
Language: English.
Home: 825 Greenridge Road, Columbus, OH 43235.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996.