George Placzek
George Placzek | |
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Born | Georg Placzek September 26, 1905 Zurich , Switzerland |
Spouse | Els Andriesse |
George Placzek (German: Georg Placzek; September 26, 1905 – October 9, 1955) was a Moravian physicist.[1]
Biography
Placzek was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Czech Republic), the grandson of Chief Rabbi Baruch Placzek.[2][3] He studied physics in Prague and Vienna.
In the 1930s, Placzek was known as an adventurous person with sharp sense of humor, a tireless generator of novel physics ideas which he generously shared with his colleagues.[
Placzek's major areas of scientific work involved a fundamental theory of
During his stay in Landau's circle in
Later, Placzek was the only Czech with a leading position in the
Unlike many trailblazers of nuclear physics, George Placzek did not leave his recollections or life story notes. Many new facts about Placzek's life and his family roots emerged in connection with a Symposium held in Placzek's memory.[7] Placzek's premature death in a hotel in
See also
References
- ^ Fischer, Jan (22 August 2005). "George Placzek – an unsung hero of physics". CERN Courier. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-981-3236-91-2.
- ^ a b Gottvald, A. (2005). "Kdo byl Georg Placzek (1905–1955)". Čs. čas. Fyz. (in Czech). 55 (3): 275–287. Archived from the original on 25 June 2007. (PDF)
- ^ Frisch O. R.: "The Discovery of Fission – How It All Began". Physics Today 20 (1967), 11, pp. 43-48
- ISSN 0031-9228.
- ISSN 0273-7116. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Abstracts from the Symposion in Memory of George Placzek (1905-1955)" (PDF). Brno, Czech Republic. 2005.