Konstanty Zakrzewski
Konstanty Zakrzewski (born January 14, 1876 in Warsaw , † January 19, 1948 in Krakow ) was a Polish experimental physicist .
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Zakrzewski was arrested as a youth in 1893 after attending a secret gathering for Polish independence. After graduating from high school in Lemberg in 1895, he studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow with a doctorate in 1900 under August Witkowski . As a post-doctoral student he was with Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in Leiden from 1902 to 1904 . In 1908 he completed his habilitation. He was a professor at the Jagiellonian University from 1911 until his death (with an interruption from 1913 to 1917 when he was Professor of Theoretical Physics in Lemberg, succeeding Marian Smoluchowski ). In 1928/29 he was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty there.
He worked in the field of optics and solid-state physics (review of the electron theory of metals by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz , dielectric properties of solids) and from 1947 initiated research on cosmic radiation in Poland.
With Wladyslaw Natanson he wrote a textbook on physics (published 1924 to 1929).
In 1920 he became a corresponding and in 1932 a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences . He received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta .
Fonts
- Short, little dampened waves . In: Bulletin de l'Académie des Sciences et des Lettres / A , 1932, pp. 249-256.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zakrzewski, Konstanty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish experimental physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1948 |
| Place of death | Krakow |