Physics from the Sorbonne, he returned to Poland to work in an academic research laboratory. In 1964, Kowalski attended a scientific conference in the US—and stayed on, becoming a research associate with Professor Jack Miller in Columbia University's Chemistry department. In 1969, he began a 35-year career as a professor and researcher of Physics at Montclair State University. Since retiring in 2004, he has continued to work in two areas of personal interest—conducting Physics experiments and writing about experience under the Communism of the Soviet Union from an anti-communism viewpoint. Works Kowalski has authored and co-authored nearly 100 scholarly papers on Physics, a textbook on Physics, and two books on Stalinism. In January 2011, Hoover Institution archived his original notebook diaries (in Polish), letters, and personal documents and photographs. His papers can be found online. His presentations can be found online. One of his memoirs is an autobiography based on a diary he kept between 1946 and 2004 (in the USSR, Poland, France, and the USA) and illustrates his evolution from one extreme to another—from devoted Stalinist to active anti-communist: Diary of a Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality (memoirs online) (2010) See also Nuclear physics Warsaw University of Technology Curie Institute, Warsaw References External links Official site. 1931 births Polish emigrants to the United States Polish political writers 20th-century Polish Jews Jewish Polish writers Living people Warsaw University of Technology alumni Polish nuclear physicists Jewish physicists