The University of Toronto made amends and granted Infeld the posthumous title of professor emeritus
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Leopold Infeld
Leopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950). He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University (1933–1934) and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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Born 20 August 1898 · Died 15 January 1968 · Q465488
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1968· 1 entry
Died 1968-01-15.
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1964· 1 entry
Was one of the signatories of the so-called Letter of 34 to Prime Minister Józef Cyrankiewicz regarding freedom of culture
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1955· 1 entry
And is the only signatory never to receive a Nobel Prize
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1950· 1 entry
And his family left Canada and returned to communist Poland
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1945· 1 entry
Infeld, like Einstein, became a peace activist
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (1942).
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1939· 1 entry
Married a mathematician who took the name Helen Infeld and they had two children, both born in Toronto, Joan M
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1934· 1 entry
Published “Foundations of the new field theory” in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character — cited 1,983 times.
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1933· 1 entry
Left for England, then for the United States and Canada after the death of his second wife, Halina
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1921· 1 entry
Studied at Frederick William University Berlin (1920–1921).
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1920· 1 entry
Studied at Jagiellonian University (1916–1920).
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-08-20.
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