Wlodzimierz Maciej Kozak
Physiology and bioengineering scholar
Born May 7, 1927, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1969; son of Wlodzimierz and Stefania (Wierzbicka); married Ewa (Tumiel); children: Ashot.
Education: Master of Science (M.S.), University of Lodz (Poland), 1951; Ph.D., University of Sydney (Australia), 1964; Dr. hab., Necki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences., Warsaw, 1966.
Career: adjunct, 1956-60, laboratory head, 1964-68, Necki Institute of Experimental Biology; fellow, University of Sydney, 1960-63; Welcome Trust fellow, Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London (United Kingdom), 1968; visiting associate prof., Neurosensory Laboratory, State University of New York, Buffalo (NY), 1968-70; associate prof., 1970-74, prof., 1974 -, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA).
Author: introduction and scientific editor, J. C. Eccles, Fizjologia Synaps Nerwowych, 1968; 20 articles on neurophysiology and visual physiology in Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna (Poland), 1964-68; over 100 articles and papers in proflessional journals.
Member of: International Society of Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (Netherlands); International Brain Research Organization, London; Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, N.ew York City; Society of Neuroscience (MD); Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (NY); American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors: scientific award, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1955; fellowship, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1959, Rockefeller Foundation (to Australia), 1959-60, British Council, 1965, Polish Academy of Sciences and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) Academy of Science, 1965, Karolinska Institute (Sweden), 1966, Johns Hopkins University (to Chile), 1970, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1978, Australia National University, 1979, National Academy of Science & Hungarian Academy of Science, 1984, Monash University & Lions International Diabetes Institute (to Australia), 1986; grants, National Science Foundation (NSF), Rockefeller Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, Hewlett-Packard Foundation.
Affiliation: Democrat. Roman Catholic.
Languages: Polish, English, Russian, German, French, Latin, Czech.
Hobbies: hiking, bicycling, aviation.
Home: 7520 Kensington St., Pittsburgh, PA 15221.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996