Mieczysław Wolfke
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'''Mieczysław Wolfke''' (1883 – [[1947]]) was a [[Poland|Polish]] [[physicist]].
Wolfke is known for his discovery of two types of liquid [[helium]], of which He II is still the only known superfluid liquid. He did ground-breaking work in [[holography]], an area of optics dealing with the creation and recording of three-dimensional images: in 1920 he divided the process of creating such images into two distinct phases by using two beams of light, each having a different wavelength.
[[Dennis Gabor]], the 1971 Nobel laureate in physics, named Mieczysław Wolfke as one of his precursors in the development of holography.
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[[Category:Polish physicists]]
[[Category:University of Wrocław alumni]]
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