Czech Republic, Physicist
September 26,
1905 – October, 9, 1955.
George Placzek was a Czech physicist. Placzek was born in Brno, Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, into a wealthy Jewish family. He studied physics in Prague and Vienna. In the 1930s, Placzek was known as an adventurous person with sharp sense of humor, a tireless generator of novel physics ideas which he generously shared with his colleagues.
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