By Alex GordonHAIFA, Israel — Myron Mathisson (1897‒1940), a Polish physicist, was born in Warsaw on December 12, 1897, into a merchant family. Later that same year, he was admitted to the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, successfully completing his studies there in six semesters. After being demobilized from the army, Mathisson enrolled in the physics and mathematics department of the University of Warsaw. His lectures were popular, and active scientific work was underway. Einstein, Langevin, de Broglie, and Hadamard highly appreciated the talent of Myron Mathisson.