Polish Academy of Sciences explained
Polish Academy of Sciences should not be confused with Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) 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.[2]
History
The Polish Academy of Sciences is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established by the merger of earlier science societies, including the Polish Academy of Learning (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, abbreviated PAU), with its seat in Kraków, and the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (Science), which had been founded in the late 18th century.[3]
The Polish Academy of Sciences functions as a learned society acting through an elected assembly of leading scholars and research institutions. The Academy has also, operating through its committees, become a major scientific advisory body. Another aspect of the Academy is its coordination and overseeing of numerous (several dozen) research institutes. PAN institutes employ over 2,000 people and are funded by about a third of the Polish government's budget for science.[4]
Leadership
The Polish Academy of Sciences is led by a President, elected by the assembly of Academy members for a four-year term, together with a number of Vice Presidents.
The President for the 2019–2022 term was Jerzy Duszyński (his second term in the post),[5] together with five Vice Presidents: Stanisław Czuczwar, Stanisław Filipowicz, Paweł Rowiński, Roman Słowiński, and Romuald Zabielski.[6]
On 20 October 2022, General Assembly of the Polish Academy of Sciences elected Marek Konarzewski to become the new President of the Academy for the 2023–2026 term.[7] [8] On 8 December 2022, another session of General Assembly of the Academy elected four Vice Presidents at the recommendation of the President Elect; as such Mirosława Ostrowska, Natalia Sobczak, and Dariusz Jemielniak, and Aleksander Welfe were elected as Vice Presidents of the Academy for the 2023–2026 term.
All the Presidents of the Polish Academy of Sciences to date, by term, are as follows:
Institutes
The Polish Academy of Sciences has numerous institutes, including:
Notable members
- Bogdan Baranowski, chemist
- Franciszek Bujak, historian
- Tomasz Dietl, physicist
- Aleksandra Dunin-Wąsowicz, archaeologist
- Zofia Hilczer-Kurnatowska, archaeologist
- Maria Janion, scholar, critic and theoretician of literature
- Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleontologist
- Franciszek Kokot, nephrologist
- Stanisław Konturek, physician
- Leszek Kołakowski, philosopher
- Roman Kozłowski, paleontologist
- Jacek Leociak, literary scholar
- Wanda Leopold, author, translator, and literature critic
- Mieczysław Mąkosza, chemist
- Zenon Mariak, neurosurgeon, professor
- Zenon Mróz, engineer
- Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist
- Witold Nowacki, mathematician (president of the Academy 1978 to 1980)
- Czesław Olech, mathematician
- Bohdan Paczyński, astrophysicist
- Krystian Pilarczyk, hydraulic engineer
- Włodzimierz Ptak, immunologist
- Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska electronics engineer and academic
- Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician
- Jan Strelau, psychologist
- Zofia Sulgostowska, archaeologist
- Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
- Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, anthropologist and religious studies scholar
- Andrzej Trautman, physicist
- Andrzej Udalski, astrophysicist and astronomer
- Jerzy Vetulani, pharmacologist and neuroscientist
- Jan Woleński, philosopher
- Aleksander Wolszczan, astronomer
- Bernard Zabłocki, microbiologist and immunologist
- Stanisław Zagaja, pomologist, professor and director of Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture
Foreign members
- Aage Bohr, physicist
- Zbyszek Darzynkiewicz, cell biologist
- Joseph H. Eberly, physicist
- Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist and engineer
- Martin Hairer, mathematician
- Jack K. Hale, mathematician
- Stephen T. Holgate, immunopharmacologist (2001)[11]
- Ernst Håkon Jahr, linguist
- Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polish chemist working at Carnegie Mellon University
- Karl Alexander Müller, physicist
- Roger Penrose, mathematician
- Carlo Rubbia, physicist
- Peter M. Simons, philosopher
- Boleslaw Szymanski, computer scientist
- Chen Ning Yang, physicist
- George Zarnecki, art historian
Periodicals
See main article: category.
See also
External links
- PAN website (click on British flag icon for English-language content)
Notes and References
- Web site: Instytucja Naukowa - Dzieje instytucji . 2014-08-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140804034745/http://www.instytucja.pan.pl/index.php/dzieje-instytucji . 2014-08-04 .
- Book: Hübner, P. . 1987 . Nauka polska po II wojnie światowej – idee i instytucja . Warsaw . 143–144 .
- Web site: Instytucja Naukowa - Dzieje instytucji . 2014-08-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140804034745/http://www.instytucja.pan.pl/index.php/dzieje-instytucji . 2014-08-04 .
- Ustawa z dnia 30 kwietnia 2010 r. o Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
- Web site: Prezes. Polish Academy of Sciences. 30 September 2019. 28 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181028033707/https://instytucja.pan.pl/index.php/wladze-pan?id=20. live.
- Web site: Wiceprezesi. Polish Academy of Sciences. 30 September 2019. 24 January 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190124041430/https://instytucja.pan.pl/index.php/wladze-pan?id=21. live.
- Web site: Prof. Marek Konarzewski wybrany na stanowiska prezesa PAN . 2022-10-23 . Polska Agencja Prasowa SA . pl . 2022-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221023115429/https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news,1458242,jest-nowy-prezes-pan.html . live .
- Web site: Prof. Marek Konarzewski nowym prezesem Polskiej Akademii Nauk . 2022-10-21 . pl . Rzeczpospolita . 2022-10-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221020172704/https://edukacja.rp.pl/uczelnie-wyzsze/art37272751-prof-marek-konarzewski-nowym-prezesem-polskiej-akademii-nauk . live .
- Book: Thomas A Ban. Hanns Hippius. Thirty Years CINP: A Brief History of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum. 6 December 2012. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-642-73956-9. 153–.
- Web site: Institute of Hydro-Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences - IBW PAN . 2024-08-07 . www.ibwpan.gda.pl.
- Web site: Academia Europaea: Holgate Stephen Townley. AE-Info.org. 2019-02-20. en-GB. 2001 Overseas Member, Polish Academy of Sciences.. 2019-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20190221112116/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Holgate_Stephen_Townley. live.
