Marek Gazdzicki

Marek Gaździcki
Born9 June 1956 (1956-06-09) (age 69)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materWarsaw University
University of Frankfurt/Main
Known forOnset of deconfinement
Scientific career
FieldsHigh-energy physics, hadron physics, nuclear physics
InstitutionsJoint Institute for Nuclear Research
Jan Kochanowski University
University of Heidelberg
University of Frankfurt/Main
CERN (SPS)

Marek Gaździcki (born 9 June 1956) is a Polish high-energy nuclear physicist, and the initiator and spokesperson of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS).

He, along with Mark I. Gorenstein, predicted the threshold energy of the quark–gluon plasma production (the so-called "onset of deconfinement") in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. These predictions have been confirmed by the NA49 experiment at the CERN SPS within the energy scan programme which was started by him and Peter Seyboth.