Polish Academy of Sciences

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.

History

The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: "Polska Akademia Nauk", abbreviated "PAN") is a Polish state learned institution, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established in 1952 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.

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.

For a time, future novelist Jerzy Kosiński was an employee at the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Poliqarp is an open source search engine designed to process the Polish Corpus created at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.

Notable members

* Tomasz Dietl, physicist
* Maria Janion, scholar, critic and theoretician of literature
* Zbigniew Jedliński, chemist
* Leszek Kołakowski, philosopher
* Bohdan Paczynski, astrophysicist
* Aleksander Wolszczan, astronomer
* Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician
* Andrzej Trautman, physicist

Foreign members

* Aage Niels Bohr, physicist
* Karl Alexander Müller, physicist
* Roger Penrose, mathematician
* Carlo Rubbia, physicist
* Chen Ning Yang, physicist
* George Zarnecki, art historian

Periodicals

* "Acta Palaeontologica Polonica"
* "Acta Ornithologica"

See also

* Academy of Sciences
* French Academy of Sciences
* Polish Academy of Learning (headquartered in Kraków).
* Royal Society

External links

* [http://www.pan.pl/english/ PAN website] en icon


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