Konwersatorium im. J.Pniewskiego i L.Infelda
sala 0.03, ul. Pasteura 5
2020-02-24 (16:30) 
Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski
Marian Danysz (1909-1983), great and colourful Polish physicist
Marian Danysz was born in Paris. He was the son of Jan Kazimierz Danysz, well known physicist, an assistant to Maria Skłodowska-Curie. Marian Danysz studied electrical engineering at the Warsaw Polytechnic and simultaneously took part in radioactivity studies under professor Ludwik Wertenstein in the Radiological Laboratory of the Warsaw Learned Society. After the second World War he joined University of Warsaw physics at Hoża 69, where he made brilliant discovery of hypernuclei. The talk will cover Danysz’s scientific successes as well as his colourful life.