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Polish Science Academy
The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars and a network of research institutes. It was established in 1951, during the early period of the Polish People's Republic following World War II. History The Polish Academy of Sciences is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established by the merger of earlier science societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning (''Polska Akademia Umiejętności'', abbreviated ''PAU''), with its seat in Kraków, and the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (Science), which had been founded in the late 18th century. The Polish Academy of Sciences functions as a learned society acting through an elected assembly of leading scholars and research institutions. The Academy has also, operating throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staszic Palace
Staszic Palace (, ) is an edifice at Nowy Świat Street, ulica Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw, Poland. It is the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences. History Origin The history of the Staszic Palace dates from 1620, when King of Poland, King Sigismund III of Poland ordered the construction of a small Eastern Orthodox chapel, as an appropriate burial place for the former Tsar Vasili IV of Russia and his brother, Dmitry Shuisky, who had died in Polish custody after having been captured several years earlier during the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18), Polish-Muscovite War of 1605-18. As the Polish capital's population was mostly Roman Catholic Church, Catholic, Protestant or Jewish, there was little call for an Orthodox chapel, and in 1668 another Polish king, John II Casimir, transferred the chapel to the Dominican Order, who were caretakers of the building until 1808. 19th century In 1818 the building was purchased by Stanisław Staszic, a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paweł Rowiński
Paweł Mariusz Rowiński (born 26 February 1965) is a Polish hydrogeologist, hydrodynamicist, geophysicist, full professor at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, vice-president of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2015–2018 and 2019–2022). He specializes in environmental hydrodynamics, river physics, mathematical modelling and experimental studies of hydrological and hydrophysical processes. Rowiński's main scientific achievements are related to the analysis of mechanisms of turbulent mass and energy transport in flowing water. He has also written a number of works on statistical methods in hydrology, intelligent data analysis, and the consequences of climate change. Education and professional activity In 1988 he graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechatronics at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 1995 he earned his PhD, followed in 2002 by his higher doctorate (DSc, ''dokto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Karol Kostrzewski
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksander Gieysztor
Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist historian. Life Aleksander Gieysztor was born to a Polish family in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a railwayman. In 1921, the family relocated to Poland and settled in Warsaw. He graduated in history from the University of Warsaw in 1937. He was married to Irena Gieysztor née Czarnecka, a fellow historian. The Aleksander Gieysztor Prize of the Kronenberg Foundation and the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities are named after him. Awards *1944: Silver Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari *1961: Legion d'Honneur *1980: The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany *1994: Order of the White Eagle *1993: Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta A 1993 President's decree on gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witold Nowacki
Prof Witold Nowacki HFRSE PPAS (1911–1986) was a Polish mathematician and expert on the mechanics of elasticity and thermoelasticity. He served as President of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1980 and was the first President of the Society of the Interaction of Mathematics and Mechanics. Life He was born in Zakrzewo in Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ... on 20 July 1911, the son of Ludwik Nowacki and his wife, Bronislawa Czyzewska. He studied at Gdańsk Polytechnic graduating in 1934. In the Second World War he served as an officer in the Polish Army but was captured in 1939 and spent the entire war as a German prisoner of war. In 1945 he was accepted as a Professor at Gdańsk University of Technology lecturing in the Strength of Materials. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski
Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski (February 25, 1906 in Grodzisk Wielkopolski – November 13, 1982) was a Polish chemist, physicist and mathematician. An institute in Wrocław, Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ... called the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research is named after him. External linksWłodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research website References 1906 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Polish chemists Presidents of the Polish Academy of Sciences 20th-century Polish physicists Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland) Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland {{Poland-scientist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Groszkowski
Janusz is a masculine Polish given name. It is also the shortened form of January and Januarius. People * Janusz Akermann (born 1957), Polish painter * Janusz Bardach, Polish gulag survivor and physician * Janusz Bielański, Roman Catholic priest * Janusz Bojarski (born 1956), Polish general * Janusz Bokszczanin (1894–1973), Polish Army colonel * Janusz Brzozowski (1935–2019), Polish-Canadian computer scientist *Janusz Christa (1934–2008), Polish author of comic books * Janusz Domaniewski (1891–1954), Polish ornithologist *Janusz Gajos, Polish actor *Janusz Gaudyn (1935–1984), Polish physician, writer and poet * Janusz Głowacki (1938–2017), Polish-American author and screenwriter * Janusz Grabowski (born 1955), Polish mathematician * Janusz Janowski (born 1965), Polish painter, jazz drummer and art theorist *Janusz Kamiński (born 1959), Polish cinematographer and film director *Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
Tadeusz Marian Kotarbiński (; 31 March 1886 – 3 October 1981) was a Polish philosopher, logician and ethicist. A pupil of Kazimierz Twardowski, he was one of the most representative figures of the Lwów–Warsaw School, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) as well as the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He developed philosophical theory called '' reism'' () and an ethical system called independent ethics. Kotarbiński also contributed significantly to the development of praxeology. Henryk Greniewski and Kazimierz Pasenkiewicz were doctoral students under Kotarbiński. Life Tadeusz Kotarbiński was born on 31 March 1886 in Warsaw, then Congress Poland, Russian Empire, into an artist's family. His father, Miłosz Kotarbiński, was a painter his mother, Ewa Koskowska, was a pianist and composer. His uncles were Józef Kotarbiński, an important figure in Polish theater circles, and Wilhelm Kotarbiński, a talented painter. Expelled from secondary school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Bohdan Dembowski
Jan Bohdan Dembowski (; 26 December 1889 – 22 September 1963) was a Polish biologist and academic who was the first President of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Biography Dembowski was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire and studied in the Saint Petersburg and Vienna universities. From 1919 to 1934 a researcher at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. From 1920 to 1930 a professor at the Free Polish University and from 1922 to 1934 he was an associate professor at the University of Warsaw. He was a professor at the Vilnius University and after the Soviet annexation of Lithuania he became a lecturer at the University of Marxism-Leninism in Vilnius. In years 1929–1939 he was the editor-in-chief of popular-science journal '' Wszechświat''. During World War II he became involved in the Polish Union of Patriots. He became the first president of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1952–1956), marshal of the Sejm (1952� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dariusz Jemielniak
Dariusz Jemielniak (born 17 March 1975) is a professor of management at Kozminski University, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and vice-president of Polish Academy of Sciences. His interests revolve about social data science and collaborative society, open collaboration projects (such as Wikipedia or F/LOSS), strategy of knowledge-intensive organizations, virtual communities, and disinformation. In 2015, he was elected to the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees and has served for three consecutive terms until 2025. In 2024 European Commission appointed him to the board of European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Career He is a graduate of VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Tadeusza Reytana w Warszawie and a 2000 ''summa cum laude'' graduate from the Faculty of Management, Warsaw University. In 2004, he earned a Ph.D. in management (as subfield of economics) from the Kozminski University, under the superv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Sobczak
Natalia Sobczak (born 21 April 1956) is a professor of materials engineering at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the 2023–2026 term. She specializes in the physicochemistry of metals and alloys, physical metallurgy and heat treatment, foundry engineering, and the practice and theory of metal composites. Education She earned her master's degree (with distinction) from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in 1984, followed by her doctorate (PhD) from the same university in 1984. She earned her higher doctorate degree (DSc or "habilitation") in 2005 from the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012, she received the title of Full Professor from the President of Poland. Professional career Since 2019, Sobczak has been working at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of the Polish Academy of Science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirosława Ostrowska
Mirosława Małgorzata Ostrowska (born 26 June 1969) is a professor at the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the 2023–2026 term. Within the field of oceanology, her research work focuses on the physics and optics of the sea and on modeling the environmental conditions of fluorescence and photosynthesis in the sea as indicators of changes in the environment. She has been a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1999. Education She graduated with a degree in telecommunications from the Gdańsk University of Technology in 1985. She earned her doctorate in oceanology (specifically in the physics of the sea and optics of the sea and atmosphere) from the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2000, with a dissertation entitled "Using Fluorescence Methods for Photosynthesis Investigation in the Sea). She then earned her higher doctorate (DSc or "habilitation") at the sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
