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Polish Academy of Sciences

Logo Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften .png
Abbreviation
PAS
Formation
1951; 67 years ago (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




Staszic Palace and Copernicus Monument


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 including:



  • 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

  • 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 (pl)


  • Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science (pl)


  • 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 (pl)

  • Museum and Institute of Zoology



Notable members




  • Tomasz Dietl, physicist


  • 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


  • Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician


  • Jan Strelau, psychologist


  • Piotr Sztompka, sociologist


  • Andrzej Trautman, physicist


  • Andrzej Udalski, astrophysicist and astronomer


  • Jerzy Vetulani, pharmacologist and neurobiologist

  • Wojciech Jacek Stec(pl), chemist


  • 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





  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-13. 


  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-13. 


  3. ^ Ustawa z dnia 30 kwietnia 2010 r. o Polskiej Akademii Nauk.


  4. ^ Thomas A Ban; Hanns Hippius (6 December 2012). Thirty Years CINP: A Brief History of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 153–. ISBN 978-3-642-73956-9. 




External links







  • PAN website (click on British flag icon for English-language content)
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