Background
Czesław Białobrzeski was born on August 31, 1878, in Poshekhonye, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 60 Volodymyrska Street, City of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01033
Czesław Białobrzeski studied physics at the University of Kiev (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) from 1896 to 1901 and received the Venia Legendi there in 1907.
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Powązki Cemetery, Powązkowska 14 01-797 Warsaw, Poland
The grave of Czesław Białobrzeski at Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw, section 196-1-22 (March 2012).
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 60 Volodymyrska Street, City of Kyiv, Ukraine, 01033
Czesław Białobrzeski studied physics at the University of Kiev (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) from 1896 to 1901 and received the Venia Legendi there in 1907.
Collège de France, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris, France
Czesław Białobrzeski continued 1908 - 1910 as a student of Paul Langevin at Collège de France, Paris.
olish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Since 1921 Czesław Białobrzeski was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning.
Polish Academy of Science, The Palace of Culture and Science, Plac Defilad 1, 00-901 Warsaw, Poland
Since 1952, Czesław Białobrzeski belonged to the Polish Academy of Science, among many others.
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Czesław Białobrzeski was born on August 31, 1878, in Poshekhonye, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia.
Białobrzeski studied physics at the University of Kiev (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) from 1896 to 1901 and received the Venia Legendi there in 1907.
He continued 1908 - 1910 as a student of Paul Langevin at Collège de France, Paris.
From 1914 to 1919 Czesław Białobrzeski held the chair of physics and geophysics at the University of Kiev (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). In 1919 he moved to Poland and became Head of department at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Białobrzeski assumed the chair of theoretical physics at Warsaw University in 1921 and occupied it for the rest of his life.
Białobrzeski’s work may be divided into three periods. From 1900 to 1912 he carried out experimental and theoretical research on the electrical and optical phenomena in fluid and solid dielectrics.
In 1912 Białobrzeski turned his attention to the role of radiation pressure in the equilibrium of the star interior. His paper on this (1913) drew the attention of the Polish physicists Smoluchowski and Natanson but attracted little notice abroad because the journal had only a limited circulation. Other works dealing with radiation pressure were his papers on the mechanism of light absorption (1923 - 1926). The second period closed with the publication of La thermodynamique des étolies (1931).
In the third period, Białobrzeski concentrated on the philosophical problems of physics, mainly on the interpretation of quantum-theory foundations. He initiated and was elected chairman of the international scientific conference in Warsaw (1938) where this problem was discussed by many famous theorists. During World War II, Białobrzeski prepared a three-volume work to be entitled Podstawy poznawcze fizyki świata atomowego ("Epistemological Foundations of the Physics of the Atomic World"), in which he developed his philosophical interpretation of the quantum theory. Unfortunately, the manuscripts of the first two volumes were burned during the Warsaw Insurrection (1944). After the war, Białobrzeski returned to Warsaw University and started to reconstruct the book. The work, limited to one volume, was finished in 1951 and published in 1956.
Czesław Białobrzeski died on October 12, 1953, in Warsaw, Poland, and was buried at Powązki Cemetery, Warsaw.
Czesław Białobrzeski served several terms as president of Polish Society of Physics.