Georg Placzek: A Nuclear Physics Odyssey

by Prof. Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota)

Thursday 4 May 2023, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Prague

Abstract:

Georg Placzek (1905-1955) was one of the pioneers of quantum physics, Niels Bohr’s assistant, and the only Czecoslovakia citizen who became a part of the Manhattan Project during the WWII. After his untimely death Placzek and his scientific contributions were essentially forgotten in the West.  Aleš Gottvald and I collected unknown archive documents shedding light on his adventurous life and some of  the “Placzek’s stories” and published them in a recent book "George Placzek: A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey”.
 

This talk is non-technical and is intended for a wide audience.

 

The seminar will be held in the conference hall in the main building of the Institute of Physics, Na Slovance 2, Prague 8 on the ground floor.

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