Stanley George Wojcicki[1] (/ˌvuːɪˈtʃɪtski/ VOO-ih-CHITS-kee;[2] born Stanisław Jerzy Wójcicki, Polish: [vujˈt͡ɕit͡skʲi]; March 30, 1937 – May 31, 2023)[3] was a Polish-American physicist and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California.
[4] Wojcicki was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Janina Wanda Wójcicka (née Kozłowska), a bibliographer, and Franciszek Wójcicki, a lawyer.
His father remained in Poland, and was soon imprisoned for five years for being a member of the government's main opposition party.
[7] Wojcicki served as an advisor to government funding agencies (US and foreign) as well as to several high energy physics laboratories.
[11] In 2010, his daughter Anne and her then-husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, endowed a $2.5 million chair in experimental physics at Stanford in her father's name.