Subtitle:

Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science

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

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Location:

Biblioteka Instytutu Historii Nauki PAN

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

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:232884

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