What is Polish Academy of Sciences?
The '''Polish Academy of Sciences''' ([[Polish language|Polish]]: ''Polska Akademia Nauk'', in short: ''PAN'') with seat in [[Warsaw]], is one of the two [[Poland|Polish]] institutions which have the nature of an [[academy of sciences]]. ==History== The Polish Academy of Sciences is an [[institution]] of studies of the Polish state, with seat in Warsaw. It had been established in [[1952]] by the [[partnership]] of previous societies of studies, including [[Polish Academy of Abilities]] (''Polska Akademia Umiejętności'', in short ''PAU''), with its seat in [[Cracow]], and the [[Scientific Society of Warsaw]] (''Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie'') which had been established in the [[18th century]] as [[Society of Warsaw of the Friends of Sciences]] (''Warszawskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk''). In [[1989]], the Polish Academy of Abilities, in Cracow, assume again its independent existence, out of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw. ==Polish Academy of Sciences at Present== The Polish Academy of Sciences funciona as docta society which acts through a chosen corporation of distinguished scholars and of institutions of [[research]]. The academy also acts through its committees, creating an important scientific consulting body. ==Remarkable members== * [[Tomasz Dietl]] [[physics|physicist]]; * [[Bohdan Paczynski]] [[astrophysics|astrophysicist]]; * [[Adam Schaff]] ([[Marxism|Marxist]] [[philosophy|philosopher]] who had been a member of the academy); * [[Aleksander Wolszczan]] [[astronomer]]. ==Foreign members== * [[Aage Niels Bohr]] [[physics|physicist]]; * [[Karl Alexander Müller]] [[physics|physicist]]; * [[Roger Penrose]] [[mathematics|mathematician]]; * [[Carlo Rubbia]] [[physics|physicist]]; * [[Chen Ning Yang]] [[physics|physicist]]. ==Related pages== * [[Royal Society]] == Other websites== * {{in lang|en}}[http://www.pan.pl/english/ Website of PAN] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117195758/http://www.pan.pl/english/ |date=2008-01-17 }} [[Category:Organizations based in Warsaw]] [[