Tomasz Niewodniczański

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Tomasz Niewodniczański (born September 25, 1933 in Vilnius ; † January 3, 2010 in Bitburg ) was a Polish nuclear physicist, German entrepreneur and European collector of cartographic works.

Life

Niewodniczański comes from a Polish family of scholars. The Institute for Nuclear Physics in Cracow was named after his father Henryk Niewodniczański (1900–1968) . His mother Irena, b. Prawocheńska, is a daughter of the well-known horse breeder Roman Prawocheński (1877–1965), professor of biology at the Jagiellonian University. His brother Jerzy Niewodniczański was President of the National Atomic Energy Agency in Poland from 1992 to 2009 .

Niewodniczański grew up in Vilnius, where his grandfather Wiktor Niewodniczański (1872–1929) was director of the first electricity company and at times also in Cambridge and Poznan ; In 1945 the family moved to Kraków , where he graduated from the Nowodworski High School. Tomasz was unable to enforce his original career desire to become a shipbuilding engineer against the will of his father, who “forced” his sons to become nuclear physicists himself. Therefore, both graduated from the Faculty of Physics at Jagiellonian University. In 1955 Thomasz Niewodniczanski took his master's degree, after which he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Warsaw.

In 1956 he received a scholarship for the Institute of Physics at the Technical University in Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1963. There he met the Bitburg architecture student Marie-Luise Simon , whom he married in Switzerland in 1960. The church wedding then took place in the Catholic parish church of St. Paulin in Trier. In 1963 the eldest of his three sons was born in Bitburg; then the family moved to Warsaw together , where he headed the Samodzielne Laboratorium Budowy Akceleratora Liniowego (Independent Laboratory for the Construction of a Linear Accelerator). After the completion of the linear accelerator , the family emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1970 , where Niewodniczański first worked at a physics institute in Heidelberg and at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, where he was involved in the development of the GSI linear accelerator.

Together with the husband of a cousin of his wife, Michael Dietzsch , and her cousin Axel Th. Simon , Niewodniczański took over the management of the Bitburger brewery in 1975; later he took over the function of finance director of Bitburger Holding . During this activity, a new large brewery was built for Bitburger in Bitburg-Süd, where he was able to use his experience from his Swiss time in the planning and construction of CERN ; Niewodniczański later commented on this with the words: "In principle, it doesn't matter whether you build a particle accelerator or a new brewery."

Fonts (selection)

  • Thomas Niewodniczański (Ed.): "I am healthy and feel good". Letters from Polish prisoners in the German concentration camps. Translated by Marie-Luise Niewodniczańska, catalog for the exhibition from the Thomas Niewodniczański collection of the Prümer Land eV history association in the customer hall of the Kreissparkasse Bitburg-Prüm in Prüm, Prüm 2009.
  • n'-γ [gamma] angle correlation for 56 Fe <n, n'γ> 0.845 at 2.0 MeV , dissertation, Zurich 1963, doi : 10.3929 / ethz-a-000087575 .
  • Imago Germaniae: The mapmaker's image of Germany in five centuries; from the map department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage - and the Niewodniczański Collection, Bitburg. Catalog of the exhibition in the Berlin State Library , September 23 to November 9, 1996 / [Exhibition and catalog: Lothar Zögner. With an introduction by Joachim Neumann] ISBN 3-87437-388-6 .
  • Danzig, old cityscapes, maps, documents; Selection from the Tomasz Niewodniczański collection. Exhibition: German Poland Institute Darmstadt, House Deiters, October 13 - November 17, 2000 / [ed. from the German Poland Institute Darmstadt. Exhibition and catalog Kriemhild Kern and Matthias Kneip].
  • Building bridges - Polish history in maps and documents: from April 18 to June 8, 2002 Berlin State Library Prussian Cultural Heritage / exhibition by the German-Polish collector Tomasz Niewodniczański. 2002.

Honors and memberships

  • 1991 Honorary doctorate from the University of Trier
  • In 1999 the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences appointed him an honorary senator
  • 1993 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 1998 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
  • 2002 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2004 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Lithuania
  • In 2009 the Republic of Poland awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and awarded him and his wife Marie-Luise the Gloria Artis Medal for cultural merit

literature

  • Joachim Neumann: Tomasz Niewodniczaski 23.9.1933 - 3.1.2010. In: Cartographica Helvetica: Trade journal for card history Volume 41–42 (2010) Issue 42

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.porta-polonica.de/de/atlas-der-erinnerungsorte/sammler-physiker-unternehmer-tomasz-niewodniczanski?page=1#body-top
  2. ↑ https://www.pol-int.org/de/salon/der-traum-vom-polnischen-atom-de
  3. ↑ http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/bitburg/aktuell/Heute-in-der-Bitburger-Zeitung-Bitburg-Warschau-und-zurueck;art752,3312382
  4. ↑ https://www.jugend-forscht.de/uploads/media/Nachruf_Niewodniczanski_Tierischer_Volksfreund.pdf
  5. ↑ https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/about-the-library/ausstellungen-und-veranstaltungen/detail/article/2002-04-15-1170/
personal data
SURNAME Niewodniczański, Tomasz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish nuclear physicist, German entrepreneur and European collector
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2010
Place of death Bitburg