Żory
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Żory is a city in the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland with 62,848 inhabitants. It is located in the historic Upper Silesia region about 30 kilometres southwest of Katowice.
Market square (rynek)
Saints Philip and Jacob parish church.
Mass grave of Polish insurgents of the Third Silesian Uprising of 1921
Division of the city into districts.
Otto Stern
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Otto Stern was a German–American experimental physicist. He is the second most nominated person for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations during the years 1925–1945. In 1943, he received the Nobel Prize
Żory
…Jehovah's Witnesses (Sala królestwa ul. Hańcówka 41) Otto Stern (1888–1969), physicist and Nobel laureate Jerzy Makula (born 1952), pilot, two times European Glider Aerobatic Champion and six times World Glider…
Stern, 1940s
Plaque on the wall of what are now the physics institutes of Hamburg University, commemorating Stern's tenure.