Famous People with Name Henryk

Henryk Zygalski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Zygalski: 1908 - 1978) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Zygalski was, from September 1932, a civilian cryptologist with the Polish General Staff's Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau), housed in the Saxon Palace in Warsaw. He worked there with fellow Poznan University alumni and Cipher Bureau cryptology-course graduates Marian

Henryk Arctowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Arctowski: (1871 - 1958) was a Polish scientist, oceanographer and Antarctica's explorer.Henryck Arctowski, Ph.D., was born in Warsaw, July 15, 1871, and educated in Paris, Liege, Zurich and Lemberg. He was in charge of physical observations on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (the Belgica Expedition) of 1897-1899.

Henryk Jordan            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Jordan: (July 23, 1842, Przemysl – May 16, 1907, Kraków), was a Polish philanthropist, physician and pioneer of physical education in Poland. A professor of obstetrics from 1895 at Kraków's Jagiellonian University, Jordan became best known for organizing children’s playgrounds, called "Jordan’s Gardens" after him.

Henryk Lipszyc            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Lipszyc: born 1941) is a Polish scientist, specialist in Japanese culture, theatre and a translator from Japanese. In 1964 he graduated from the Warsaw University. Between 1972 and 1978 he studied at various Japanese universities, including University of Waseda and University of Tokyo, thanks to a scholarship of the Ministry of Education of Japan. In 1987 he was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Studi

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: (pronounced ['x?nr?k m?i'k?waj gu'r??tski]) (born December 6, 1933 in Czernica, Poland) is a Polish composer of classical music. Górecki's work in the late 1950s and 1960s was characterised by a dissonant modernism influenced by Nono, Stockhausen, and his contemporaries Penderecki and Serocki. In the mid 1970s, he moved towards a 'pure' sacred minimalist sound, encapsulated by the 1976 Symphony No