Nicolas Witkowski
Nicolas Witkowski (born September 29, 1949 in Échauffour ; † 2020 ) was a French physicist, teacher, science journalist, translator and editor.
Together with the physicist Sven Ortoli , Witwowski brought out his best-known book "The Bathtub of Archimedes" (Piper Verlag, 1996). He taught physics at the Lycée général et technologique l'Agora, or Lycée Agora for short, in Puteaux . From 1997 to 2001 he was the editorial coordinator of the “Dictionnaire culturel des sciences”. He was editor of the "Points Sciences" collection of the Seuil publishing house .
Fonts
- La Baignoire d'Archimède, petite mythologie de la science, avec Sven Ortoli, Seuil, 1996.
- Une histoire sentimentale des sciences, Seuil, 2003.
- Trop belles pour le Nobel, les femmes et la science, Seuil, 2005.
- Papillonnages, une histoire culturelle du papillon, Seuil, 2007.
- Petite métaphysique des jouets, éloge de l'intuition enfantine, La Martinière 2011.
- Science infuse, dictionnaire politique des sciences, Don Quichotte, 2013.
Web links
- Literature by and about Nicolas Witkowski in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- A book review on Deutschlandradio
- Witkowski, Nicolas (1949 -....) , entry at Identifiants et Référentiels (IdRef)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicolas Witkowski (1949-2020), parti comme un papillon, accessed on August 27, 2020
- ^ Nicolas Witkowski. Editions du Seuil.
- ^ Nicolas Witkowski. babelio.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Witkowski, Nicolas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Witkowski, Nicola; Витковски, Никола; ヴ ィ ト ゥ コ フ ス キ ー, ニ コ ラ; 비트 코브 스키, 니콜라스 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist, teacher, science journalist, translator and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Échauffour , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2020 |