Polish Academy of Sciences
Abbreviation | PAS |
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Formation | 30 October 1951 (30 October 1951)[1] |
Type | National academy, Academy of Sciences |
Headquarters | Warsaw |
Region served | Poland |
President | Prof. Jerzy Duszyński |
Website | pan.pl |
Formerly called | Warsaw Scientific Society Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning |
The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, 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.
Contents
1 History
2 Institutes
3 Notable members
4 Foreign members
5 Periodicals
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History
The Polish Academy of Sciences PAN, is a Polish state sponsored institution of higher learning, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established by the merger of earlier learned 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.[2]
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. Another aspect of the Academy is its coordination and overseeing of numerous (several dozens) research institutes. PAN institutes employ over 2,000 people, and are funded by about a third of the Polish government's budget for science.[3]
Institutes
The Polish Academy of Sciences has numerous institutes, for example:
- Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
- Institute of Psychology
- Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Bohdan Dobrzański Institute of Agrophysics
- Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy od Sciences in Lodz
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science
Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences[4] - established, 1954, became an independent institute in 1974; publishes the journal Pharmacological Reports.
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Museum and Institute of Zoology
Notable members
Tomasz Dietl, physicist
Aleksandra Dunin-Wąsowicz, archaeologist
Maria Janion, scholar, critic and theoretician of literature
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleontologist
Franciszek Kokot, nephrologist
Stanisław Konturek, physician
Leszek Kołakowski, philosopher
Roman Kozłowski, paleontologist
Wanda Leopold, author, translator, and literature critic
Mieczysław Mąkosza, chemist
Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist
Witold Nowacki, mathematician (president of the Academy 1978 to 1980)
Rafal Ohme, social psychologist
Czesław Olech, mathematician
Bohdan Paczyński, astrophysicist
Włodzimierz Ptak, immunologist
Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician
Jan Strelau, psychologist
Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
Andrzej Trautman, physicist
Andrzej Udalski, astrophysicist and astronomer
Jerzy Vetulani, pharmacologist and neuroscientist
Jan Woleński, philosopher
Aleksander Wolszczan, astronomer
Bernard Zabłocki, microbiologist and immunologist
Stanisław Zagaja, pomologist, professor and director of Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture
Foreign members
Aage Bohr, physicist
Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz, cell biologist
Joseph H. Eberly, physicist
Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist and engineer
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polish chemist working at Carnegie Mellon University
Karl Alexander Müller, physicist
Roger Penrose, mathematician
Carlo Rubbia, physicist
Boleslaw Szymanski, computer scientist
Chen Ning Yang, physicist
George Zarnecki, art historian
Periodicals
- Acta Arithmetica
- Acta Ornithologica
- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
- Acta Physica Polonica
- Annales Zoologici
- Archaeologia Polona
- Fundamenta Mathematicae
See also
- Academy of Sciences
- French Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Learning (headquartered in Kraków)- Poznań Society of Friends of Learning
- Royal Society
- Unipress
- Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning
References
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External links
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