Kazimierz Czarnecki

Kazimierz R. Czarnecki (1916 – 30 January 2005) was an aeronautics engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and later, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Biography Kazimierz R. Czarnecki was born in 1916 in Poland (at the time under occupation of the Government General of Warsaw and the Military Government of Lublin), to a Polish family.

Czarnecki died on 30 January 2005, in Newport News, Virginia, United States.

Depictions in popular culture In the 2016 film Hidden Figures, the character of Karl Zielinski was a fictionalized version of Czarnecki featured as a wind tunnel expert, who worked together with Mary W. Jackson.

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