This is a list of Polish inventors and discoverers . The following incomplete list comprises people from Poland and of Polish origin, and also people of predominantly Polish heritage, in alphabetical order of the surname.
The Jagiellonian University is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland's most prestigious academic institution. The university has been viewed as a vanguard of Polish culture as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe.
Young Poland was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism. Young Poland promoted trends of decadence, neo-romanticism, symbolism, impressionism and art nouveau.
The Adam Mickiewicz University is a research university in Poznań, Poland.
The University of Lviv, presently the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, is the oldest institution of higher learning in present-day Ukraine, dating from 1661 when John II Casimir, King of Poland, granted it its first royal charter.
Education has been of prime interest to Poland's rulers since the early 12th century. The catalog of the library of the Cathedral Chapter in Kraków dating from 1110 shows that Polish scholars already then had access to western European literature. In 1364, King Casimir III the Great founded the Cracow Academy, which would become one of the great universities of Europe. The Polish people have made considerable contributions in the fields of science, technology and mathematics. The list of famous scientists in Poland begins in earnest with the polymath, astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated the heliocentric theory and sparked the European Scientific Revolution.
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 31 October 2005 to 14 July 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party.
Jerzy Petersburski (1895–1979) was a Jewish Polish pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tangos, some of which were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation.
The University of Warsaw is a public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in humanities, technical, and the natural sciences.
How I Unleashed World War II is a Polish feature film made in 1969, based on Kazimierz Sławiński's novel "Przygody kanoniera Dolasa". It was shot in Sochi, Baku, Poświętne and Łódź, among other places.
Presidential elections were held in Poland on 20 June 2010. As no candidate received a majority of votes in the first round, a second round was held on 4 July 2010. Bronisław Komorowski, the acting President of Poland and vice-chairman of the Civic Platform, defeated Jarosław Kaczyński, twin brother of recently deceased President Lech Kaczyński and chairman of Law and Justice. The global financial crisis, flooding in Poland and the Smolensk disaster were the main themes in the last months of the election campaign.
Rogala is a Polish coat of arms, likely imported from Germany to Poland in 1109 by the Rogala or the Ribersztein family, that then added the second horn. It was used by several szlachta families in the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City is a consular mission of the Republic of Poland in the United States. It was inaugurated in 1919. The consulate is located in the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House at 233 Madison Avenue, New York City, New York. The Consul General of the Republic of Poland in New York is Adrian Kubicki.
Encyklopedia Powszechna published by Samuel Orgelbrand in 1859–1868 was one of the first modern Polish encyclopedias.
Events in the year 2022 in Poland.
Ludwik Maria Łubieński, comte de Pomian was a Polish lawyer, diplomat and military officer. He was Head of the Polish Maritime Mission in Gibraltar during World War II and an eyewitness of the air disaster whose victim was the Polish wartime Premier and military leader, Władysław Sikorski. After the war, he became an expatriate official in Munich and London.
Stanisław Plater was a Polish-Lithuanian historian, geographer, officer.
1877-1938
Dr. Ludwik Gross, who influenced cancer research by showing that viruses could cause cancers in animals, died on Monday at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He was 94 and lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The cause was stomach cancer, said his daughter, Dr. Augusta H. Gross.