Georg Placzek – The Odyssey of a Nuclear Physicist from Brno
Georg Placzek – The Odyssey of a Brno Nuclear Physicist Tuesday, 20 January at 6 p.m. A native of Brno and world-renowned physicist Georg Placzek (1905–1955) was not only a witness to, but also an active participant in many events and discoveries that symbolise the dawn of the atomic age, with many consequences for our post-war history and the present day. In a lecture by Aleš Gottvald, CSc., a long-time employee of the Academy of Sciences, we will take a closer look at the novelistic life journey of Georg Placzek as a leading internationally established theoretical physicist, as a member of a remarkable Jewish-Moravian industrial family with a tragic wartime fate, and as a colourful personality highly respected among his renowned colleagues. Admission is voluntary. source: Ben Skála, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0