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Jerzy Pniewski

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Jerzy Pniewski
Pniewski in 1967
Born(1913-06-01)June 1, 1913
DiedJune 16, 1989(1989-06-16) (aged 76)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Known forDiscovery of hypernucleus
AwardsMarian Smoluchowski Medal (1969)
Order of Polonia Restituta (1974)
Scientific career
InstitutionsPolish Academy of Sciences

Jerzy Pniewski (Polish: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈpɲɛfskʲi]; June 1, 1913 – June 16, 1989) was a Polish physicist, professor at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is known for discovering the hypernucleus together with Marian Danysz in 1952.

Life and career

Pniewski was born in 1913 in Płock, Congress Poland.[1] He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Warsaw. He served as Director at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the University of Warsaw between 1953–1958 and 1962–1975 and subsequently as Head of the Department of Physics from 1975 to 1981.

In the 1950s, he enabled his physics students to work at CERN, who were officially unable to participate in this project due to political reasons at that time.[2]

His contributions to science are in the area of subatomic experimental physics, in particular nuclear physics. In 1952, he co-discovered the hypernucleus with Marian Danysz. The discovery was made with the use of a nuclear emulsion plate exposed to cosmic rays, based on their energetic but delayed decay. This event was inferred to be due to a nuclear fragment containing a Λ baryon.[3] This achievement proved to be fundamental in the development of nuclear and elementary particle physics as for the first time, researchers observed atomic nuclei in which at least one proton or neutron was replaced by a slightly heavier hyperon (containing a strange quark).[4]

In 1962, he discovered hypernuclear isomery.

In 1964, he received the Order of the Banner of Labour 1st Class. In 1969, he was awarded the Marian Smoluchowski Medal by the Polish Physical Society. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics three times (1962, 1965, 1967).[5] In 1974, he was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

In 1971, he became a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Lyon and University of Heidelberg.[6]

He died in 1989 and was buried at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw.[7]

According to physicist Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski, Pniewski is among the greatest Polish physicists of the 20th century alongside Marie Curie, Marian Smoluchowski, Karol Olszewski, and Marian Danysz.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ A. K. Wroblewski (2004). "Hypernuclei (and Strange Particles) --- How It All Began?" (PDF). Acta Physica Polonica B. 35 (3).
  2. ^ "Polish School of Particle Physics". nawa.gov.pl. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  3. ^ Danysz, M.; Pniewski, J. (March 1953). "Delayed disintegration of a heavy nuclear fragment: I". The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. 44 (350): 348–350. doi:10.1080/14786440308520318.
  4. ^ "The European Physical Society gives special recognition to physics at 69 Hoza Street". eurekalert.org. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  5. ^ "Nomination Archive - Marian Danysz". NobelPrize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  6. ^ "PNIEWSKI JERZY (1913-1989)". polskaswiatu.pl (in Polish). 25 July 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Warszawskie Zabytkowe Pomniki Nagrobne". cmentarze.um.warszawa.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Fizyka w Polsce wczoraj, dziś i jutro". labfiz.uwb.edu.pl. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
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