Kcynia
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Kcynia ' is a town in Nakło County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
, Poland
, with 4,712 inhabitants (2004).
Kcynia is the birthplace of Jan Czochralski
.
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
-Transportation:Transportation infrastructure is of critical importance to the voivodeship's economy. Kuyavia-Pomerania is a major node point in the Polish transportation system. Railway lines from the South and East pass through Bydgoszcz in order to reach the major ports on the Baltic Sea...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, with 4,712 inhabitants (2004).
Kcynia is the birthplace of Jan Czochralski
Jan Czochralski
Jan Czochralski was a Polish chemist who invented the Czochralski process, which is used to grow single crystals and is used in the production of semiconductor wafers....
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