Kazimierz Czarnecki (engineer)
Kazimierz R. Czarnecki was an American aeronautics engineer who worked for NACA, later NASA.
Kazimierz Czarnecki graduated in 1939 from the University of Alabama. He started working with NACA that same year and remained through the renaming to NASA until his retirement in 1979 from a position as Senior Aeronautical Research Engineer.
In the 2016 film Hidden Figures, Karl Zielinski was a fictionalized version of Czarnecki featured as a wind tunnel expert. He published many papers together with Mary W. Jackson, serving as her long-time mentor. In 1979, Jackson organized his retirement party.Publications
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