Antoni Opolski
{{Short description|Polish physicist}}
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| name = Antoni Opolski
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| caption = Antoni Opolski in May 1961
| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|06|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rozwadów, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (now Rozvadiv, Ukraine)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|03|17|1913|06|11|df=y}}
| death_place = Wrocław, Poland
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| occupation = physicist
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Antoni Opolski (11 June 1913 – 17 March 2014) was a Polish physicist. His field was astronomy and astrophysics. After World War II, he worked at the astronomical observatory of the University of Wrocław. He retired in 1983. He was born in Rozwadów (now Lviv Oblast, Ukraine). He died from natural causes on 17 March 2014 in Wrocław, Poland. He was 100 years old. His funeral was held on 22 March.{{cite news|title = Zmarł nestor polskich astronomów - prof. Antoni Opolski|language = Polish|publisher = money.pl|date = 2014-04-20|url = http://nauka.money.pl/artykul/zmarl-nestor-polskich-astronomow---prof-antoni-opolski,237,0,1499629.html|accessdate = 2014-04-10}}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140326011039/http://www.uni.opole.pl/inf.php?id=1751&lang=pl Antoni Opolski biography] at the [http://www.uni.opole.pl/ University of Opole website] {{in lang|pl}}
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Category:Polish astrophysicists
Category:20th-century Polish astronomers
Category:Polish men centenarians
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