Protoplast of CERN's hadron quest born in Poland 90 yrs ago today
Tuesday would have marked the 90th birthday of Wieslaw Stanislaw Czyz, a Polish physicist who was a forerunner of research into heavy ion collisions.
04.05.2017 04:59
update: 30.09.2018 15:12
PAP/Adam Warżawa
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Born on May 2, 1927 in the eastern city of Lublin.He was a professor of physics and teacher at the Jagiellonian University in the southern city of Krakow as well as a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.For most of his career he conducted research at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Nuclear Physics in Krakow and at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Physics.He was among the co-founders of a theoretical approach to high-energy physics that was developed in Krakow. He co-authored the so-called wounded nucleon model that is used to describe high-energy collisions of protons and heavy nuclei. He was a forerunner of research into the new state of matter that is created during relativistic collisions of heavy ions called quark-gluon plasma.Czyz contributed to a field of research that today underlies high-energy physics facilities such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operated by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland.Prof. Wieslaw Czyz died on April 8 this year. (PAP)
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