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Warsaw Scientific Society (Polish: Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie; TNW) is a Polish scientific society based in Warsaw. It was established in 1907 [1] as a continuation of the Society of Friends of Science to advance the sciences and arts and to publish scientific papers.
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory, number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books.
Kazimierz Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1946 and 1953, he served as President of the Polish Mathematical Society.
Antoni Zygmund was a Polish-American mathematician. He worked mostly in the area of mathematical analysis, including especially harmonic analysis, and he is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. Zygmund was responsible for creating the Chicago school of mathematical analysis together with his doctoral student Alberto Calderón, for which he was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986.
The Warsaw University of Technology is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2,453 teaching faculty, with 357 professors. The student body numbers 36,156, mostly full-time. There are 19 faculties (divisions) covering almost all fields of science and technology. They are in Warsaw, except for one in Płock.
The Polish Academy of Sciences is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars and a network of research institutes. It was established in 1951, during the early period of the Polish People's Republic following World War II.
Franciszek Leja was a Polish mathematician.
Jerzy Neyman was a Polish mathematician and statistician who first introduced the modern concept of a confidence interval into statistical hypothesis testing and, with Egon Pearson, revised Ronald Fisher's null hypothesis testing.
TNW may refer to:
The Warsaw Society of Friends of Science was one of the earliest Polish scientific societies, active in Warsaw from 1800 to 1832.
Staszic Palace is an edifice at ulica Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw, Poland. It is the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Janusz Andrzej Zakrzewski was a Polish physicist. He was a professor of the University of Warsaw, member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, Polish Academy of Sciences (1986), Polish Academy of Learning. He served as president of the Polish Physical Society between 1987–1991.
The Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology is a Polish scientific research organization and a part of Polish Academy of Sciences headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. Founded in 1918, it is named after Polish biochemist and medic Marceli Nencki. It is a leading institution in the country in the field of neurobiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry.
Chemik Polski was the first Polish scientific journal of chemistry. It was published weekly, and later bi-weekly, in the years 1901-1918 by the Chemistry Section of the Warsaw Branch of the Russian Society for the Promotion of Industry and Commerce and covered all branches of theoretical and applied chemistry. The journal was published in Warsaw, initially by J. Leski, and from 1908 by Boleslaw Miklaszewski. The founder and editor in chief was Bronislaw Znatowicz. Contributors included Marie Curie and Wojciech Świętosławski.
The Polish Philosophical Society is a scientific society based in Poland, founded in 1904 in Lwów by Kazimierz Twardowski.
Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski – Polish experimental physicist, ordinary professor doctor habilitatus, dean of the Physics Department Warsaw University (1986–1989), Rector of the Warsaw University (1989–1993), President of the Academic Council of the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Wszechświat is a Polish popular-science magazine, currently issued as quarterly by Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, supported by AGH University of Science and Technology and Polish Academy of Learning.
Jerzy Marian Langer is a Polish physicist specializing in condensed matter physics. He is a professor at the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Langer is currently an Ambassador for the European Innovation Council for the years 2021-2027.
Jerzy Prószyński is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders. He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities and the Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
Piotr Bielinski is a Polish Mediterranean archaeologist, professor of humanities, specializing in the archaeology of the ancient Middle East. His research interests include the art - especially glyptics - and architecture of Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine, Anatolia, and the Persian Gulf from the Chalcolithic to the Bronze Age. He has led over a dozen Polish archaeological expeditions to the Middle East.
Marcin Kacprzak was a doctor, educator, pedagogue, publicist, pioneer of social medicine in Poland.