Zygmunt Wróblewski. Hot Oxygen
The main idea of the project “100 Names of Belarus” is to recall the eminent Belarusians and to tell the general public about them. The Workshop of Vladimir Bokun studio of historical films met the challenge. A film about the great scientist and experimenter Zygmunt Wróblewski, after whom the physics department of the Jagiellonian University (Poland) was named, has recently joined the glorious company of films about such scientists as Sofia Kovalevskaya, Ignacy Domeyko, Yakub Narkevich-Jodko.
A young scientist from Grodno managed to deny in 1883 the then unchallengeable theory about the impossibility of obtaining oxygen in liquid form. The young scientist was able to turn other gases into liquid as well, e.g. nitrogen and carbon monoxide, using liquid oxygen as a cooler. These discoveries became the turn to a new era in science, industry, and medicine.
In 1886, the Vienna Imperial Academy of Sciences awarded Wróblewski with the prestigious Baumgarten Prize and accepted him as a corresponding member a year after.
The film “Zygmunt Wróblewski. Hot Oxygen” tells about the personality of an outstanding scientist, about his incredible thirst for knowledge, perseverance and readiness to sacrifice himself for the sake of science.
The film “Zygmunt Wróblewski. Hot Oxygen” had its premiere in Minsk cinemas in December 2018.
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