Title:

Great passion for the smallest things : Life and work of Ludwik Wertenstein (1887–1945)

Subtitle:

Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science

Creator:

Dolecki, Marcin

Institutional creator:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Publisher:

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2020

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Location:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

Subject and Keywords:

history of physics ; radioactivity ; Mirosław Kernbaum Radiological Laboratory of the Warsaw Scientific Society ; inelastic collisions of neutrons

Abstract:

The aim of the article is to show the most important facts of the life and work of Professor Ludwik Wertenstein (1887–1945). He was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Ernest Rutheford, a de facto supervisor of the Mirosław Kernbaum Radiological Laboratory of the Warsaw Scientific Society (1914–1939) and a highly regarded science communicator. The main scientific achievement of Wertenstein was his discovery of inelastic collisions of neutrons in 1934.

Relation:

Analecta : studia i materiały z dziejów nauki polskiej

Volume:

29 (2020)

Issue:

2

Start page:

9

End page:

42

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

pdf

Resource Identifier:

1509-0957

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, full text available at:

Original in:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

Access:

Open