SCIENTIA SUPREMA - Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

The Nobel Prize in Physics this year was awarded to: James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for "their contribution to our understanding of the evolution of the Universe and the place of the Earth in space". Professor M. Demiański's lecture presented the main achievements of this year's winners and discussed the early stages of evolution of the Universe, the process of formation of light elements and the formation of a relict background radiation, the basic methods of exoplanet search and the current state of knowledge about planetary systems.

Professor Marek Demiański deals with relativistic astrophysics and cosmology. His mother scientific unit since 1962 is the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw. At the beginning of his scientific career he dealt with mathematical and physical aspects of the general theory of relativity, since the seventies of the last century he has been dealing mainly with relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, in particular the process of structure formation in the universe, the properties of relict radiation and the nature of dark energy and dark matter. He collaborates with many foreign research centres, such as the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and the Frederico II University in Naples. He was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology, Texas State University in Austin and has been cooperating with Williams College in Massachusetts, USA, for many years.

The Seminar was held on 14 November 2019 in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology at 75 Koszykowa Street in Warsaw.

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