Andrzej Wladyslaw Kozinski
Biology educator
Born Oct. 1, 1925, Warsaw, Poland; came to U.S., 1957; son of Marian and Jozefina (Jasinska); married Shui-Kuen (Ling); children: Jagoda, Kasia, Peter, Mark, Mira.
Education: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), 1951, Ph.D. (in biochemistry), 1956, Warsaw Medical Academy.
Career: research assistant, State Hygienic Institute, 1949-51, research associate, Institute of Biochemistry, 1951-53, Warsaw; docent, Department of Microbiology, University of Warsaw, 1955-57; assistant prof., Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (NJ), 1958-59; National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellow, Biology Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (MD), 1959-62; associate member, Wistar Institute, 1962-66, associate prof., 1966-68, prof., 1968-90, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; visiting prof., Polish Academy of Sciences, 1980, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, 1988.
Author: over 80 scientific papers; co-author, 4 books.; first to prove molecular mechanism of recombination as a breakage and reunion of DNA molecules.
Member of: American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
Honors: National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship, 1959-62.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Russian.
Hobbies: nature, music, reading.
Home: RR 1, Nolalu, ONT POT 2KO, Canada
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation,
New York, NY, 1996