Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner of her first Nobel Prize, making them the first married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was, in 1906, the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris.
Puławy is a city in eastern Poland, in Lesser Poland's Lublin Voivodeship, at the confluence of the Vistula and Kurówka Rivers. Puławy is the capital of Puławy County. The city's 2019 population was estimated at 47,417. Its coat of arms is based on Pogonia.
Florian Święs is a Polish biologist. He is a full professor of Biology and Earth Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. In 1992 he became the Head of the Geobiology Division at the Institute of Biology.
Jerzy Bartmiński was a Polish linguist and ethnologist.
The University of Life Sciences in Lublin is a multi-profile higher education institution, which integrates a wide range of agricultural, biological, veterinary, technical and socioeconomic sciences in Poland. Although the university was established in 1955, its history stems back to 1944 with the creation of the Agrarian and Veterinary Faculties within the new Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS). In 1955, these two faculties, together with the Faculty of Zootechnics, were spun off to create a new institution, originally called the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture. It was called the Lublin Agricultural Academy from 1972, and took its present name in 2008.
Roman Andrzej Tokarczyk is a legal scholar and philosopher, full professor, lecturing at the Faculty of Law and Administration, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland, and at the Faculty of Management and Administration of the Zamość University of Management and Administration. He specializes in ethics, history of political law doctrines, comparative legal studies, philosophy of law and in American law. He has authored popular books in these fields and translated works of Hobbes and Fuller.
Henryk Cioch was a Polish lawyer, lecturer, professor of law, Senator and justice of Polish Constitutional Tribunal.
Tomasz Kitliński is a Polish political philosopher, cultural and social analyst, and civic activist. He was a lecturer and trade unionist at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University: since 2023 he has been Professor at the Academy of the Arts in Szczecin. He is also an author of books, articles, petitions and letters of protest. In his research and teaching, he deals with contemporary society, culture and politics, intellectual history, literary and critical theory, art practice, religious studies and social anthropology. In his activism, he champions women's, LGBT, labour and refugee rights and participation.
Jakub Ciężki was born in 1979 in Lublin, Poland. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, in 2003; He was granted an honors degree in the painting atelier of Prof. Jacek Wojciechowski. Ciężki is a painter fascinated with street furniture along with realistic abstractions. He is attracted by the industrial landscape.
Bohdan Dobrzański was a Polish soil scientist, agrophysicist, agronomist, academic, and professor at several Warsaw- and Lublin-based universities. As the Rector of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture, he led the formation of the first Chair of Soil Science in Poland. Dobrzański was a pioneer of agrophysics in Poland, a founder and long-time director of the Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin, and the Polish Journal of Soil Science. He is a co-author of the official Table of Land Classes and criteria for valorisation of agricultural production areas. He was awarded a number of prizes and medals including The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
Krzysztof Andrzej Hetman is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2014. Since December 2023, he has served as Minister of Economic Development and Technology.
Tadeusz Szczurek is a Polish philosophy and security sciences specialist, Doctor of Philosophy, brigadier general of the Polish Armed Forces, associate professor and former rector-commander of the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland.
The Maria Skłodowska-Curie Monument is a bronze statue in Lublin, eastern Poland, dedicated to Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934).
Andrzej Kokowski is a Polish archaeologist who is a Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.
Józef Skłodowski was a Polish educator, librarian, particpant of the November Uprising, and the grandfather of Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
Jan Bystrek was a Polish botanist and professor of natural sciences. He was employed at the Department of Systematic and Geography of Plants at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University from 1956 until 2004. He published research in many fields, including botany, floristry, lichenology, systematics, environmental protection, biogeography, ecology, bioindication, and nature and landscape protection. He was involved in popularizing knowledge about nature and ecological education.
Aniela Chałubińska was a Polish geographer, geologist and university professor. She was one of the founders and the first director of the Institute of Regional Geography and remained there for 18 years at the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland.
Klub Uczelniany Akademickiego Związku Sportowego Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie or KU AZS UMCS Lublin is a Polish university multi-sports club based in Lublin. It is the university sports club for the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. Top departments include athletics, swimming and women's basketball. It is one of the top athletics clubs in Poland, whereas the women's basketball team competes in the Basket Liga Kobiet, the country's top division.
