POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

The 'Polish Academy of Sciences', headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions, having the nature of an academy of sciences.

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History

Notable members

Foreign members

Periodicals

See also

External link

History

The 'Polish Academy of Sciences' (Polish: ''Polska Akademia Nauk'', abbreviated ''PAN'') is a Polish state scholarly institution, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established in 1952 by the merger of earlier scholarly 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, which had been founded in the late 18th century.
The Polish Academy of Sciences functions as a learned society acting through an elected corporation of leading scholars and research institutions. The Academy has also, operating through its committees, become a major scientific advisory body.
In 1989, the Polish Academy of Learning, in Kraków, resumed its independent existence, separate from the Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw.

Notable members

★ Tomasz Dietl physicist

★ Bohdan Paczynski astropysicist

★ Adam Schaff (Marxist philosopher who was a member of the Academy)

★ Aleksander Wolszczan astronomer

Foreign members

★ Aage Niels Bohr physicist

★ Karl Alexander Müller physicist

★ Roger Penrose mathematician

★ Carlo Rubbia physicist

★ Chen Ning Yang physicist

Periodicals

★ Acta Ornithologica

See also

★ Polish Academy of Learning (headquartered in Kraków).

★ Academy of Sciences

★ French Academy of Sciences

★ Royal Society

External link

★ PAN website