The Soil Science Society of Poland (SSSP) (Polish: Polskie Towarzystwo Gleboznawcze) is a scientific and professional society of Polish soil scientists.
The society was founded in 1937 on the initiative of Feliks Terlikowski, Jan Włodek and Tadeusz Mieczyński. The aim of SSSP is to promote and stimulate the development of soil science, pedology, agricultural chemistry and agricultural microbiology in Poland and organize the community of Polish soil scientists. in 2017 the society gathers c. 450 members organized in 14 regional divisions and 4 thematic divisions (1. Soils in Space and Time, 2. Soil Properties and Processes, 3. Soil Use, 4. The Role of Soils in Sustaining Society and the Environment).
The Society is a publisher of scientific magazineSoil Science Annual (former Roczniki Gleboznawcze, founded in 1950) with articles in english about broadly understood soil sciences. It is also initiator and publisher subsequent editions of Polish Soil Classification.
The International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), founded in 1924 under the name International Society of Soil Science, is a scientific union and member of the International Science Council (ISC).
The Poznań Society of Friends of Learning or Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences is a learned society in Poznań, Poland, established in 1857, by scholars and scientists in all branches of learning. It has been one of the largest and most important general learned organizations in Poland.
Oswald Marian Balzer was a Polish historian of law and statehood, one of the most renowned Polish historians of his times.
Edward Franciszek Szczepanik was a Polish economist and the last Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile.
Sokół, or in full the Polskie Towarzystwo Gimnastyczne "Sokół", is the Polish offshoot of the Czech Sokol movement, and the oldest youth movement organization of Poland. Created in Lwów in 1867, by the end of World War I the movement had its units – gniazda ("Nests") – in all parts of Poland, as well as among the Polish communities abroad. The group's goal was to develop fitness, both physically and mentally, with a motto mens sana in corpore sano.
The Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne (PTS) (Polish Sociological Association) is the main professional organization of sociologists in Poland. The PTS defines its mission as "supporting the development of sociology and popularizing sociological knowledge within society".
Antoni Żabko-Potopowicz was an economist of agriculture, economic historian, and professor at Warsaw Agricultural University. He was a member of Polish Science Society and co-founder of the 1945 incarnation of the Polish Economic Society.
The Warsaw Society of Friends of Science was one of the earliest Polish scientific societies, active in Warsaw from 1800 to 1832.
Polish Historical Society is a Polish professional scientific society for historians.
Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze, PTTK is a Polish non-governmental tourist organization with 312 branches across the country.
Czesław Znamierowski (1888–1967) was a Polish philosopher, jurist and sociologist. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Poznań and chaired its Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law. Znamierowski is noted in Polish law for his contributions to social sciences and jurisprudence, particularly the concept of legal system which is similar to H.L.A. Hart's ideas, but was published almost forty years before Hart's The Concept of Law.
The Polish Astronomical Society is science society in Poland, founded in 1923, with headquarters in Warsaw. Members of PTA are professional astronomers. Purpose of the association is promoting the development of astronomical science, their teaching and outreach in community. PTA is involved in publishing astronomical books, as well as popular science magazine Urania - Postępy Astronomii. PTA is also a producer of a TV series Astronarium about astronomy and space. The society organizes conferences and contests. Current President of PTA is Marek Sarna and number of members is around 280. Polish Astronomical Society is a member of the European Astronomical Society.
The Polish Chemical Society is a professional learned society of Polish chemists founded in 1919 to represent the interests of Polish chemists on the local, national and international levels.
The Historical and Literary Society, a successor organisation to the Literary Society, was founded in Paris in 1832 as a Polish political and cultural association by a group that included Alexandre Walewski, Napoleon's natural son and future minister of foreign affairs of Napoleon III. Its founding chairman was Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and from 1861, his son, Wladyslaw Czartoryski. The society's original aim was "to collect and publicise materials relating to the former Kingdom of Poland, its current circumstances and future prospects, in the context of maintaining and encouraging in the opinion of nations the sympathy they have directed towards Poland.
The Polish Soil Classification is a soil classification system used to describe, classify and organize the knowledge about soils in Poland.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Glinka (1867–1927) was a Russian soil scientist. He was Director of the Agricultural College of Leningrad and Experimental Station, and the first director of the Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute. He authored over 150 works on soil, geography, mineralogy, and geology. He is known for having published the first world soil map in 1906.
Helena Krzemieniewska (1878–1966) was a Polish botanist and microbiologist, noted for studying myxobacteria and myxophyta in soil. The standard author abbreviation Krzemien. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
The Polish Physical Society is a professional scientific society of Polish physicists.
Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska is a Polish computer scientist, educator, and activist. She was awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology (IT). She was a member of the Polish Congress of Women.
Teofil Magdziński (1818-1889) was a Polish lawyer, conspirator, activist in exile who participated in several Polish uprisings of the second half of the 19th century. He was one of the most prominent politician in Bydgoszcz, representative at the Reichstag and a staunch defender of Polishness.
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