Professor Jacek Jarzynski (Physics 1957, PhD 1960)

Provided by Mrs Barbara Jarzynski

Jacek was born in 1935 in Poland, and after the Second World War lived in the United Kingdom,  receiving his doctorate in 1961 from Imperial College.

Accepting an invitation to teach at the American University in Washington DC, in 1963 he moved to the United States, where he continued his career as an educator and scientific researcher.  He became a full professor and a Fellow of the American Acoustical Society.  From 1971 to 1986, he worked for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, performing research in non-metallic materials, underwater and structural acoustics, and fiber optics.  He then joined the faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. After his retirement in 2001, he taught part-time at the Catholic University in Washington DC.