The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.
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The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN) is a Polish state learned institution, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established in 1952 by the merger of earlier learned 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, which had been founded in the late 18th century.
The Polish Academy of Sciences functions as a learned society acting through an elected corporation of leading scholars and research institutions. The Academy has also, operating through its committees, become a major scientific advisory body.
In 1989, the Polish Academy of Learning, in Kraków, resumed its independent existence, separate from the Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw.
For a time, future novelist Jerzy Kosiński was an employee at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Poliqarp is an open source search engine designed to process the Polish Corpus created at the Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Noted members
- Tomasz Dietl, physicist
- Maria Janion, scholar, critic and theoretician of literature
- Zbigniew Jedliński, chemist
- Leszek Kołakowski, philosopher
- Bohdan Paczynski, astrophysicist
- Aleksander Wolszczan, astronomer
- Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician
- Andrzej Trautman, physicist
- Rafal Ohme, social psychologist
Foreign members
- Aage Niels Bohr, physicist
- Karl Alexander Müller, physicist
- Roger Penrose, mathematician
- Carlo Rubbia, physicist
- Chen Ning Yang, physicist
- George Zarnecki, art historian
Periodicals
- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
- Acta Ornithologica
- Archaeologia Polona
See also
- Academy of Sciences
- Polish Academy of Learning (headquartered in Kraków)
- Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning
- Poznań Society of Friends of Learning
- French Academy of Sciences
- Royal Society
External links
- PAN website (English)
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