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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 August 1898
- Died
- 15 January 1968
- Place of birth
- Kraków
- Place of death
- Warsaw
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Leopold
- Family name
- Infeld
- Spouse
- Helen Infeld
- Child
- Eryk Infeld
- Sibling
- Felicja Stendigowa
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, non-fiction writer, university teacher, writer, journalist
- Citizenship
- Poland
- Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland, Work Flag Order, 1st class, Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- academic thesis
- Fale świetlne w teorji względności
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Władysław Natanson
- doctoral student
- Alfred Schild, Albert John Coleman, Andrzej Trautman, Thomas E. Hull, Steve Alexander Kushneriuk, Theodore Franklin Morris, Wiesław Woźnicki, Marek Demiański, Włodzimierz Kołos, Iwo Białynicki-Birula, P. R. Wallace
- employer
- Institute for Advanced Study, University of Toronto, University of Cambridge, University of Warsaw, Lviv University, Leipzig University
- Erdős number
- 3
- member of
- German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, Polish Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Polish Physical Society
- name in native language
- Leopold Infeld
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- Born–Infeld model
- place of burial
- Powązki Military Cemetery
- residence
- Poland
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