Find out more about the greatest Polish Scientists, including Marie Curie, Nicolaus Copernicus, Benoit Mandelbrot, Stanislaw Ulam and Alexander Imich.
Marie Curie07 November 1867
First woman to win a Nobel Prize
Nicolaus Copernicus19 February 1473
Zbigniew Brzezinski28 March 1928
Former Diplomat, Political Scientist
Georges Charpak01 August 1924
Physicist
Ferdinand Cohn24 January 1828
Founder of Bacteriology and Microbiology
Wernher Von Braun23 March 1912
Tadeusz Reichstein20 July 1897
Chemist
Konrad Emil Bloch21 January 1912
Biochemist
Andrew Schally30 November 1926
Endocrinologist
Ignacy Domeyko31 July 1802
Geologist
Benoit Mandelbrot20 November 1924
Mathematician, Economist, Professor, Scientist,
Albert Sabin26 August 1906
Medical Researcher
Emanuel Lasker
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686
Physicist, Inventor
Hilary Koprowski05 December 1916
Virologist, Immunologist
Stanislaw Ulam13 April 1909
Mathematician
Alfred Tarski14 January 1901
Mathematician, Philosopher
Marian Rejewski16 August 1905
Mathematician, Cryptologist
Joseph Rotblat04 November 1908
Physicist
Stefan Banach30 March 1892
Mathematician, University teacher
Jerzy Neyman16 April 1894
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
Max Factor Sr.15 September 1877
American makeup designer
Ignacy Mościcki01 December 1867
Polish chemist
Leopold Kronecker07 December 1823
Mathematician, University teacher
Leonid Hurwicz21 August 1917
Mathematician, Economist
Jack W. Szostak09 November 1952
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Gerhard Domagk30 October 1895
Biochemist, Physician, University teacher
Hermann Grassmann15 April 1809
Polymath
Felix Hausdorff08 November 1868
Mathematician, Writer, Topologist, University
Johannes Hevelius28 January 1611
Astronomer, Entrepreneur, Cartographer
Jerzy Buzek03 July 1940
Politician, Engineer, Chemist, University teacher,
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Wacław Sierpiński14 March 1882
Mathematician
Ignacy Łukasiewicz08 March 1822
Polish pharmacist
Johann Gottfried Galle09 June 1812
Astronomer, University teacher
Antoni Zygmund25 December 1900
Mathematician
Rudolf Jaenisch22 April 1942
Professor
Klaus von Klitzing28 June 1943
physicist
Günter Blobel21 May 1936
Biologist
Leo Sternbach07 May 1908
Chemist
Jon Lech Johansen18 November 1983
Cryptographer, Programmer, Computer scientist
Kazimierz Kuratowski02 February 1896
Mathematician, Logician
Michał Heller12 March 1936
Professor
Ewald Georg von Kleist10 June 1700
Jurist
Stanisław Staszic06 November 1755
Philosopher
Władysław Turowicz23 April 1908
Physicist, Aerospace engineer
Alexander Imich04 February 1903
Chemist
Robert Remak26 July 1815
Physiologist
Salomon Bochner20 August 1899
Mathematician
Aleksander Wolszczan29 April 1946
Astronomer
Haroun Tazieff11 May 1914
Volcanologist
Adolf Engler25 March 1844
Botanist
Martin Kutta03 November 1867
Mathematician
Stanisław Leśniewski30 March 1886
Mathematician
Émile Meyerson12 February 1859
Epistemologist
Witelo
Hagen Kleinert15 June 1941
Professor
Tadeus Reichstein20 July 1897
Chemist
Vernon Ingram19 May 1924
Professor
David Lubin10 June 1849
Merchant
Johann Daniel Titius02 January 1729
Astronomer
Antoni Grabowski11 June 1857
Chemical engineer, Activist
Karl Ludwig Hencke08 April 1793
Astronomer
Kasimir Fajans27 May 1887
Chemist
Włodzimierz Kuperberg19 January 1941
Mathematician, Topologist
Hermann Steudner01 September 1832
Botanist
Włodzimierz Zonn14 July 1905
astronomer, non-fiction writer
Hermann Günther Grassmann15 April 1809
Polymath
Eduard Adolf Strasburger01 February 1844
Professor
Bohdan Paczynski08 February 1940
Astrophysicist
Ludwig Gross11 September 1904
Virologist