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Polish Academy of Sciences

Staszic Palace, the seat of PAN, and Copernicus Monument
Abbreviation	PAN
Formation	30 October 1951; 73 years ago (30 October 1951)
Type	National academy, Academy of Sciences
Headquarters	Warsaw
Region served	Poland
President	Jerzy Duszyński
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 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.

History
Leadership
Institutes
Notable members
Foreign members
Periodicals
See also

History

The Polish Academy of Sciences is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning, headquartered in Warsaw, that 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.

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.

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), together with five Vice Presidents: Stanisław Czuczwar, Stanisław Filipowicz, Paweł Rowiński, Roman Słowiński, and Romuald Zabielski.

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. 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:

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: (president-elect) Marek Konarzewski

Institutes

Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station is managed by PAN

Gdańsk Library of Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences has numerous institutes, including:

Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology

Bohdan Dobrzański Institute of Agrophysics
Museum and Institute of Zoology
Kielanowski Institute of Animal Physiology and Nutrition
Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences - established, 1954, became an independent institute in 1974; publishes the journal Pharmacological Reports.
Institute of Psychology

Institute of High Pressure Physics
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research [pl]
Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science [pl]
Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry
Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences in Lodz
Department of Turbine Dynamics and Diagnostics of the Institute of Fluid-flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences [pl]
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences [pl]

Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Notable members

Aleksander Wolszczan

Leszek Kolakowski

Bogdan Baranowski, chemist
Franciszek Bujak, historian
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
Roman Kozłowski, paleontologist
Jacek Leociak, literary scholar
Wanda Leopold, author, translator, and literature critic
Mieczysław Mąkosza, chemist
Zenon Mariak, neurosurgeon, professor
Zenon Mróz, engineer
Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist
Witold Nowacki, mathematician (president of the Academy 1978 to 1980)
Czesław Olech, mathematician
Bohdan Paczyński, astrophysicist
Włodzimierz Ptak, immunologist
Marianna Sankiewicz-Budzyńska electronics engineer and academic
Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician
Jan Strelau, psychologist
Zofia Sulgostowska, archaeologist
Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
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 Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture