Andrzej Sołtan
Andrzej Sołtan (October 25, 1897 – December 10, 1959) was a Polish nuclear physicist. He also worked on spectroscopy in the band between far ultraviolet and X-rays. During his visit to Caltech in 1932-33, together with H. Richard Crane and Charles Christian Lauritsen, he discovered a method for producing neutron beams, by bombarding lithium or beryllium nuclei with accelerated deuterons.
He was appointed professor at Warsaw University in 1947, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1952, and in 1955 he became the first director of the Institute of Nuclear Research in Świerk, Otwock County near Warsaw, now known as the National Centre for Nuclear Research.
He is buried (with his wife Marta, also a physicist) in the "Avenue of the Meritorious" of Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery.
References
- Brief biography (in polish) at the National Centre for Nuclear Research
- Niewodniczański, Henryk (1960). "Andrzej Sołtan (1897-1959)" (PDF). Postępy Fizyki (in Polish). 11 (1): 3–10.
- Natanson, Ludwik (1960). "Wspomnienie o Andrzeju Sołtanie" (PDF). Postępy Fizyki (in Polish). 11 (1): 11–17.