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
Wernher Von Braun23 March 1912
Ferdinand Cohn24 January 1828
Founder of Bacteriology and Microbiology
Georges Charpak01 August 1924
Physicist
Andrew Schally30 November 1926
Endocrinologist
Konrad Emil Bloch21 January 1912
Biochemist
Ignacy Domeyko31 July 1802
Geologist
Tadeusz Reichstein20 July 1897
Chemist
Benoit Mandelbrot20 November 1924
Mathematician, Economist, Professor, Scientist,
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit24 May 1686
Physicist, Inventor
Albert Sabin26 August 1906
Physician, Virologist, University teacher
Stanislaw Ulam13 April 1909
Mathematician
Emanuel Lasker
Alfred Tarski14 January 1901
Mathematician, Philosopher
Marian Rejewski16 August 1905
Mathematician, Cryptologist
Hilary Koprowski05 December 1916
Virologist, Immunologist
Stefan Banach30 March 1892
Mathematician, University teacher
Leonid Hurwicz21 August 1917
Mathematician, Economist
Jerzy Neyman16 April 1894
Mathematician, Philosopher, Statistician
Leopold Kronecker07 December 1823
Mathematician, University teacher
Jack W. Szostak09 November 1952
Biologist, Molecular biologist, Geneticist,
Joseph Rotblat04 November 1908
Physicist
Johannes Hevelius28 January 1611
Astronomer, Entrepreneur, Cartographer
Gerhard Domagk30 October 1895
Biochemist, Physician, University teacher
Felix Hausdorff08 November 1868
Mathematician, Writer, Topologist, University
Rudolf Jaenisch22 April 1942
Professor
Stanisław Staszic06 November 1755
Philosopher
Jerzy Buzek03 July 1940
Politician, Engineer, Chemist, University teacher,
Antoni Zygmund25 December 1900
Mathematician
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Klaus von Klitzing28 June 1943
physicist
Jon Lech Johansen18 November 1983
Cryptographer, Programmer, Computer scientist
Michał Heller12 March 1936
Professor
Johann Gottfried Galle09 June 1812
Astronomer, University teacher
Leo Sternbach07 May 1908
Chemist
Günter Blobel21 May 1936
Biologist
Robert Remak26 July 1815
Physiologist
Kazimierz Kuratowski02 February 1896
Mathematician, Logician
Ewald Georg von Kleist10 June 1700
Jurist
Aleksander Wolszczan29 April 1946
Astronomer
Władysław Turowicz23 April 1908
Physicist, Aerospace engineer
Alexander Imich04 February 1903
Chemist
Haroun Tazieff11 May 1914
Volcanologist
Adolf Engler25 March 1844
Botanist
Salomon Bochner20 August 1899
Mathematician
Witelo
Hagen Kleinert15 June 1941
Professor
Tadeus Reichstein20 July 1897
Chemist
Antoni Grabowski11 June 1857
Chemical engineer, Activist
Kasimir Fajans27 May 1887
Chemist
Włodzimierz Kuperberg19 January 1941
Mathematician, Topologist
Karl Ludwig Hencke08 April 1793
Astronomer
Martin Kutta03 November 1867
Mathematician
Włodzimierz Zonn14 July 1905
astronomer, non-fiction writer
Eduard Adolf Strasburger01 February 1844
Professor
Hermann Günther Grassmann15 April 1809
Polymath
Ignacy Mościcki01 December 1867
Polish chemist
Ignacy Łukasiewicz08 March 1822
Polish pharmacist
Wacław Sierpiński14 March 1882
Mathematician