Dr. Jan Krason, Polish geologist, founder and CEO at GeoExplorers International, Inc. has passed away on 21st January 2015 in Denver after a long battle with cancer.
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The most important invention of the past 25 years are implants which cure deafness, developed by Professor Henryk Skarżyński, world-famous otosurgeon, director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and the World Hearing Centre in Kajetany—so decided internet users in a poll by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Małgorzata Mazurek – a historian, sociologist, professor at Columbia University in New York – is talking to Anna Karahan about the newly opened Polish Studies Chair and her research work.
Professor Wiesław L. Nowiński was nominated for the prestigious European Inventor Award, granted to the best world inventors, for his life-saving digital brain atlases.
The Emigration Museum in Gdynia stumbled upon a brilliant IDEA FOR THE MAY BREAK! A combination of the laws of physics and chemistry, elements of astronomy, and basics of the technology and molecular biology conceal a recipe for an excellent science picnic spiked with cultural and educational highlights for all those who like to discover or do experiments.
Special tasks require special tools: bees will be detecting explosives and drugs soon! Research proceeded smoothly and the system could be tried and tested at Heathrow Airport. Piotr Gulbicki is talking with Dr Joanna Bagniewska, a zoologist from Nottingham Trent University.
If we conduct surveys asking random people on the street of the most famous Polish name from the world of science and technology, the most common answer would probably be Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Copernicus or even Lucjan Łagiewka. But one of the outstanding Polish scientists is a little less known, but just as brilliant as the previously mentioned – Jan Czochralski.
On September 20, 2012 the president of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, the world’s largest laboratory for particle physics, was elected. Polish woman – Prof Agnieszka Zalewska from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Polish Academy of Science will hold the office from January 1, 2013.