Henryk Niewodniczański [SEP] occupation
Henryk Niewodniczański
Henryk Niewodniczański (1900–1968) was a Polish physicist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the creator and director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków.
Niewodniczański graduated from the Stefan Batory University in Wilno (Poland) in 1924 and in 1926 received his PhD from the same university. In 1927, he was awarded a fellowship at Tübingen University. At that time his main field of interest was optics of metals and molecular optics. By studying the influence of the magnetic field on the fluorescence of mercury vapour
under his inspiration began research works.
In 1988, twenty years after his death, the Institute of Nuclear Physics he created was renamed "The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics".
References.
- Biography at the Institute of Nuclear Physics website
- Another biography
- "Henryk Niewodniczański" entry in
External links.
- The Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków