Browsing: Polish scientists

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.

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.