Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences
AbbreviationPAN
Formation30 October 1951 (30 October 1951)[1]
Type
HeadquartersWarsaw
Region served
Poland
President
Marek Konarzewski
Websitepan.pl
Formerly called
Warsaw Scientific Society
Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning

The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored national academy of sciences and 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 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:

Presidents of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Term President
1952–1956 Jan Bohdan Dembowski
1957–1962 Tadeusz Kotarbiński
1962–1971 Janusz Groszkowski
1971–1977 Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski
1977–1980 Witold Nowacki
1980–1983 Aleksander Gieysztor
1984–1990 Jan Karol Kostrzewski
1990–1992 Aleksander Gieysztor
1993–1998 Leszek Kuźnicki
1999–2001 Mirosław Mossakowski
2002–2003 Jerzy Kołodziejczak
2003–2006 Andrzej Legocki
2007–2014 Michał Kleiber
2015–2018 Jerzy Duszyński
2019–2022 Jerzy Duszyński
2023–2026 Marek Konarzewski

Institutes

The PAN-managed Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station
PAN's Gdańsk Library

The Polish Academy of Sciences has numerous institutes, including:

Notable members

Aleksander Wolszczan
Leszek Kołakowski
Wanda Leopold
Notable members of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Name Field
Bogdan Baranowski Chemist
Franciszek Bujak Historian
Carsten Carlberg Biochemist
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
Bożena Kostek Computer scientist and audio engineer
Roman Kozłowski Paleontologist
Jacek Leociak Literary scholar
Wanda Leopold Author, translator and literary critic
Mieczysław Mąkosza Chemist
Zenon Mariak Neurosurgeon and professor
Zenon Mróz Engineer
Karol Myśliwiec Archaeologist
Witold Nowacki Mathematician; president of the Academy (1977–1980)
Czesław Olech Mathematician
Janina Oszast Palaeobotanist
Bohdan Paczyński Astrophysicist
Krystian Pilarczyk Hydraulic engineer
Włodzimierz Ptak Immunologist
Danuta Ptaszycka-Jackowska Geographer and landscape architect
Andrzej Rottermund Art historian and museologist; director of the Royal Castle in Warsaw (1991–2015)
Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska Electronics engineer and academic
Andrzej Schinzel Mathematician
Jan Strelau Psychologist
Zofia Sulgostowska Archaeologist
Piotr Sztompka Sociologist
Michał Strzelecki Electrical Engineer
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 the Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture

Foreign members

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Wolf Prize winner
K. Alex Müller, Nobel Prize winner

Periodicals

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Instytucja Naukowa - Dzieje instytucji". Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  2. ↑ Hübner, P. (1987). Nauka polska po II wojnie światowej – idee i instytucja. Warsaw. pp. 143–144.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Instytucja Naukowa - Dzieje instytucji". Archived from the original on 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  4. ↑ Ustawa z dnia 30 kwietnia 2010 r. o Polskiej Akademii Nauk.
  5. ↑ "Prezes". Polish Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  6. ↑ "Wiceprezesi". Polish Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
  7. ↑ "Prof. Marek Konarzewski wybrany na stanowiska prezesa PAN". Polska Agencja Prasowa SA (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  8. ↑ "Prof. Marek Konarzewski nowym prezesem Polskiej Akademii Nauk" (in Polish). Rzeczpospolita. Archived from the original on 2022-10-20. Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  9. ↑ "Centrum Badań Molekularnych i Makromolekularnych - Instytut Polskiej Akademii Nauk". www.cbmm.lodz.pl. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
  10. ↑ Thomas A Ban; Hanns Hippius (6 December 2012). Thirty Years CINP: A Brief History of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 153–. ISBN 978-3-642-73956-9.
  11. ↑ "Institute of Hydro-Engineering of Polish Academy of Sciences - IBW PAN". www.ibwpan.gda.pl. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
  12. ↑ "Academia Europaea: Holgate Stephen Townley". AE-Info.org. Archived from the original on 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2019-02-20. 2001 Overseas Member, Polish Academy of Sciences.
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