Ludwikwertestein

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Ludwikwertestein

Ludwikwertestein (born April 16, 1887 in Warsaw , † January 18, 1945 in Budapest ) was a Polish physicist and pioneer of experimental nuclear physics in Poland.

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Wertestein was a student of Marie Curie , at whose institute in Paris he was from 1908. He was one of their most productive employees and after his doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1913 he was sent to Warsaw together with Jan Kazimierz Danysz to set up the Radiological Institute of Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie (TNW). After Danysz's death in 1914 ,wertstein headed the institute until the Second World War .

There he did pioneering work in experimental nuclear physics in Poland. He also taught at the private Free Polish University ( Wolna Wszechnica Polska ) in Warsaw, which existed from 1918 to 1952. From 1925 to 1927 he was with Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge, where he made contacts with British nuclear physicists such as James Chadwick and John Cockcroft . Close contacts continued to exist with Marie Curie and her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie and other physicists in Paris (such as Paul Langevin or Louis de Broglie ). At the beginning of the Second World War he actually wanted to go to Niels Bohr in Copenhagen , but the German occupation of Poland prevented this. Through international efforts by scientists, he escaped the Holocaust in Poland and went to Hungary, where he was killed during the fighting for Budapest at the end of the war.

He was one of the founders of the Polish Physical Society . He also published popular science works.

His wife Mathildewertestein was also a physicist. His daughter Wandawertestein (1917–2003) was a film critic, screenwriter and director. His students include Józef Rotblat , who also wrote an obituary for him that appeared in Nature , and Marian Danysz .

Fonts

  • Radioactivity . Hermann, Paris 1939.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Davis, JL: The research school of Marie Curie in the Paris faculty, 1907-14 . In: Annals of Science . tape 52 , no. 4 , 1995, p. 321-355 , doi : 10.1080 / 00033799500200281 (English).
  2. ^ AK Wróblewski: Polish physicists and the progress in physics (1870-1920) . In: Czasopismo Techniczne. Nauki Podstawowe / Technical Transactions. Fundamental Science . R. 111, e.g. 1-NP, 2014, p. 255–273 (English, ejournals.eu [PDF; accessed on October 5, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Financed by a wealthy Jewish businessman in memory of his son Miroslaw Kernbaum, who had studied with Marie Curie in Paris but committed suicide there
  4. ↑ No receipt
  5. ↑ a b Joseph Rotblat: L.wertestein (obituary) . In: Nature . tape 156 , September 29, 1945, p. 384–385 , doi : 10.1038 / 156384a0 (English, nature.com [PDF; accessed October 5, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Wertstein, Ludwik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1945
Place of death Budapest