Marian Danysz

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Marian Danysz (born March 17, 1909 in Paris ; † February 9, 1983 ) was a Polish experimental physicist who dealt with nuclear and elementary particle physics. In 1952 he discovered hyper nuclei with Jerzy Pniewski . He was a professor at the University of Warsaw .

Danysz's tombstone

He was the son of the Polish-French physicist Jan (Jean) Kazimierz Danysz , who built the first beta spectrometer in 1911 . Danysz studied electrical engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic and was at the radiological laboratory with Ludwikwertestein , where he was co-discoverer of a radioactive isotope of fluorine. After graduating in 1937, he worked at a state telecommunications institute. It was only after the Second World War that he turned back to physics and took advantage of the great need for physicists after the losses of the war. He received a diploma, was an assistant and from 1950 to 1952 in Liverpool and Bristol, where he got to know the nuclear emulsion method for studying elementary particles from cosmic rays from Cecil Powell . When he returned to Warsaw in 1952, he began working with Pniewski for many years. Both complemented each other - in contrast to the more organized, calmer and physically better trained Pniewski, Danysz had little interest in administration, teaching or publications, instead he was an experimenter with great intuitive and creative talent. He also refused to take care of the written formalities for a doctorate and only received it in 1977 in the form of an honorary doctorate.

In 1961 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in 1977 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Warsaw. Since 1971 he has been a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . In 1981 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1969 he received the Marian Smoluchowski Medal .

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  1. ↑ Wroblewski, see web links
  2. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Marian Danysz. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Danysz, Marian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish experimental physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1983