“Hoza 69″ in Warsaw designated EPS Historic Site
The EPS Historic Sites programme of the European Physical Society [EPS] commemorates places in Europe important for the development and the history of physics. Laboratories, buildings, institutions, universities, towns, etc. associated with an event, discovery, research or body of work, by one or more individuals, that made considerable contributions to physics at the national or European/international level, can be considered for the Historic Site distinction from the EPS.
The “Hoza 69″ building in Warsaw, Poland, was the first EPS Historic Site declared by the EPS Selection Committee in the fall of 2011. This building, today hosting both the Institute of Experimental Physics and the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the University of Warsaw, was already of outstanding importance in the 1930s. Since then it has witnessed remarkable research and discoveries in molecular physics, nuclear and particle physics. Of outstanding importance in the 1950s was the discovery in nuclear emulsions of the first example of hypernucleus.
A beautiful Historic Site Award ceremony took place on 10 January 2013. It consisted of the unveiling of twin brass plaques, engraved with the logos of the European and Polish Physical Societies, the map of Europe, where the 41 nations whose national physical societies are members of the EPS are duly highlighted, with the Historic Site citation in Polish and English, respectively. These plaques, prominently positioned at the entrance of the building, are meant to honor the whole community of Polish physicists, founders and researchers, that have contributed and still contribute to the renown of “Hoza 69″.
