Great passion for the smallest things: Life and work of Ludwik Wertenstein (1887–1945)

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The aim of the article is to show the most important facts of the life and work of Professor Ludwik Wertenstein (1887–1945). He was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Ernest Rutheford, a de facto supervisor of the Mirosław Kernbaum Radiological Laboratory of the Warsaw Scientific Society (1914–1939) and a highly regarded science communicator. The main scientific achievement of Wertenstein was his discovery of inelastic collisions of neutrons in 1934.

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2026-10-13

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Dolecki, M. (2026). Great passion for the smallest things: Life and work of Ludwik Wertenstein (1887–1945). Analecta: Studies and Materials for the History of Science, 29(2), 9–42. Retrieved from https://wydawnictwo.pan.pl/index.php/a/article/view/7282

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