Polish immigrants contribute to the world

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) He has Polish ancestry.[2] By 1975, Wozniak withdrew from the University of California, Berkeley and came up with the computer that eventually made him famous and some have compared to a work of art since the hardware, circuit board designs, and operating system was the work solely of Wozniak.

co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s.[1]


Wozniak has several nicknames, including "The Woz", "Wonderful Wizard of Woz" and "iWoz" (a reference to the ubiquitous naming scheme for Apple products). "WoZ" (short for "Wheels of Zeus") is also the name of a company Wozniak founded. He is sometimes known as the "Other Steve" of Apple Computer, the better known Steve being co-founder Steve Jobs.

Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski, Gzowski was born in Saint Petersburg to a noble Polish father who served with the Russian military. KCMG (March 5, 1813 – August 24, 1898), was an engineer who served as acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1896 to 1897.[1]

He emigrated with his family to the United States after the Polish revolt against Russia in 1830. He knew no English, but began to study law and was admitted to practice. His father was an engineer, and as this became his primary interest, Kazimierz became involved in railway construction in the United States. Eventually he was hired as an engineer to help in the construction of the New York and Erie Railway.
In 1841 he moved to Canada to work on the Welland Canal, and also helped finish the building of Yonge Street and other projects, for the Department of Public Works in southern Ontario. He settled in London.
In 1841 he moved to Canada to work on the Welland Canal, and also helped finish the building of Yonge Street and other projects, for the Department of Public Works in southern Ontario. He settled in London.
He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1890, and, as a personal friend of Sir John A. Macdonald, was linked to the Conservative Party, even acting as an interim Lieutenant Governor before Oliver Mowat took office in 1897. He died in 1898 in Toronto.
Casimir Gzowski Park, Toronto's waterfront, commemorates him.

known contributor should be Sir Kazimierz Stanislaus Gzowski,

Peter Gzowski, CC (July 13, 1934 – January 24, 2002) was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio show Morningside.

Henryk Władysław Magnuski (1909 Warsaw -1978) was a Polish telecommunications engineer who worked for Motorola in Chicago. He was the inventor of one of the first Walkie-Talkies and one of the authors of his company success in the fields of radio communication.

Mieczysław Gregory Bekker (1905 – 1989) was a Polish engineer and scientist.
Bekker was born in Strzyżów, near Hrubieszow, Poland and graduated from Warsaw Technical University in 1929.
Bekker authored the general idea and contributed significantly to the design and construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used by missions Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17 on the Moon. He was the author of several patented inventions in the area of off-the-road vehicles, including those for extraterrestrial use.


Wojciech Rostafiński (b. 1921 in Warsaw), codename "Masłowski," was a Polish soldier of Armia Krajowa during World War II and former scientist working for NASA.
In 1953 Rostafiński moved to United States. He was manager of advanced research projects at NASA Lewis Research Center in Cleveland Ohio, contributed to the theory of aeronautics and applied mathematics, listed in Scientific Citation Index.

Frank Piasecki (pronounced /piːəˈsɛki/, PEE-ə-SEK-ee Polish pya-se-ts-ki; October 24, 1919 – February 11, 2008) was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer.

Ernest Adam Malinowski (b. January 5, 1818 in Seweryny (Podole) - March 2, 1899 in Lima) was a Polish engineer.
Malinowski constructed at that time the world's highest railway Ferrocarril Central Andino in the Peruvian Andes in 1871-1876.

Henryk Zygalski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈxɛnrɨk zɨˈɡalski] ( listen); 15 July 1908, Poznań - 30 August 1978, Liss) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. n late 1938, in response to growing complexities in German encryption procedures, Zygalski designed the "perforated sheets," also known as "Zygalski sheets," a manual device for finding Enigma settings. This scheme, like the earlier "card catalog," was independent of the number of connections being used in the Enigma's plugboard, or commutator.
After the war he remained in exile in the United Kingdom and worked, until his retirement, as a lecturer in mathematical statistics at the University of Surrey.

During this period he was prevented by the Official Secrets Act from speaking of his achievements in cryptology.
He died August 30, 1978, at Liss and is buried in London

Critical reviews were largely positive, although there was criticism of the largely fictional storyline which does not mention the real codebreaker Alan Turing, nor the Polish cryptanalysis foundation on which subsequent British codebreaking was dependent for its successes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml

I am aware of the fact that there was a british movie called Enigma and there was not even mentioned that thanks to Zygalski Enigma code was solved . It is a pity that the movie was a total fiction misleading viewers about real facts .

Enigma is a 2001 British film about the Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley Park in World War II

No one can deny that there is a lot of bad press these days in UK or US

i'm watching it.

Our local NC media doesn't say anything about you guys either

Lonstar is the only Polish artist to date to have ever appeared onstage the Grand Ole Opry in Nasville, in 1989 and again in 1990. That year he also sang at the Summer Lights Festival at the invitation from the Nashville Songwriters Association and hosted the New Country Seminar at the Lone Star Roadhouse in New York City, sharing stage with Kevin Welch and Mary-Chapin Carpenter.

and is on tvn at this very moment. i'm watching it.

Which TV channel is it on ?

the shady foreigner did it..............

before you start getting all predictably indignant...................but Im waiting with baited breath for your review.........

it's just finished. i wrote tvn

so how was it ? All fiction ?

I am aware of the fact that there was a british movie called Enigma and there was not even mentioned that thanks to Zygalski Enigma code was solved

like the Enigma cracking, they often go unnoticed :( :(

The Enigma Cinema will be showing a special film about Christine Granville/Krystyna Skarbek, a Polish Special Operations Executive agent, celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and sabotage missions to Nazi-occupied Poland and France. Her resourcefulness and success have been credited with influencing the sabotage organisation's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women. She was also a friend of Ian Fleming and is said to have been the inspiration for Bond girls Tatiana Romanova and Vesper Lynd.