On Monday, January 8, at 11.00 AM, the first in a new year Jerzy Pniewski and Leopold Infeld Colloquium of the Faculty of Physics will be held in room 0.06.

The lecture entitled:

"Józef Rotblat - forgotten Nobel Prize winner"

will be delivered by prof. dr hab. Andrzej Hennel, Uniwersytet Warszawski

The lecture will be dedicated to the person of Jozef Rotblat, "a Pole with a British passport", who was a co-developer of the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. This scientist was involved in the movement for nuclear disarmament after World War II, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.

The lecture will be given by prof. dr hab. Andrzej Hennel, a specialist in solid state physics; originator, creator, and first director of the Inter-faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the UW, co-author of academic textbooks, popularizer of science - among others within the Open University of the UW.

The lecture will be held in English.

We send our best wishes for all the prosperity in the year 2024,

Barbara Badełek
Jan Chwedeńczuk
Jan Kalinowski
Jan Suffczyński

prof. dr hab. Andrzej Hennel

"Józef Rotblat - forgotten Nobel Prize winner"

The lecture will be devoted to the "forgotten" eighth Polish Nobel Prize winner.
Józef Rotblat was born in 1908 in Warsaw, and in 1938 he received a PhD in physics from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Warsaw. From 1939 he worked at the University of Liverpool, and in 1944 at the Los Alamos laboratory. In 1946 he became a British citizen and from 1949 he was a professor of physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He was a signatory of the Einstein-Russel Manifesto in 1955 and co-founder of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Problems. In the years 1957-1973 he was the Secretary General of Pugwash, and in the years 1988-1997 its President. In 1995, they received the Nobel Peace Prize jointly - Pugwash (50%) and Józef Rotblat (50%). He died in London in 2005.