- Yitzhak Shamir
Shamir first described a meeting he had recently had with a Vermont-based psychoanalyst, the nephew of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. The nephew prided himself on the fact that his closest friends were Palestinians, and that he rejected the idea of a Jewish "tribal" identity, preferring to view all human beings as brethren. Shamir observed, "That is the last thing the bosses want. - Lech Kaczyński
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński, IPA: (born June 18, 1949) is the President of the Republic of Poland and a politician of the conservative party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS.) Kaczyński served as President of Warsaw from 2002 until December 22, 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration. - Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat, KCMG, CBE, FRS, (4 November, 1908 - 31 August, 2005) was a Polish-born British-naturalised physicist. His work on nuclear fall-out was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell-Einstein manifesto, he was secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from its founding until 1973. - Bronisław Geremek
Professor Bronisław Geremek (IPA: ,(born Berele Lewartow March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish social historian and politician. He is of Jewish origin, the son of a rabbi. Geremek was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party from 1950 until 1968, but later became an advisor to Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa. - Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who spent four decades as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. A member of the interwar Warsaw School of Mathematics, and active in the USA after 1939, he wrote on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, metamathematics, and above all, model theory, abstract algebra, … - Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza a major Polish newspaper, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodziński. In 1968-1989 he was one of the leading organizers of the illegal, democratic opposition in Poland. Historian, essayist, political publicist. The laureate of many awards, for example: a Knight of the Legion of Honour. - Karol Borsuk
Karol Borsuk (May 8, 1905, Warsaw - January 24, 1982, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology. Borsuk introduced the theory of "absolute retracts" (ARs) and "absolute neighborhood retracts" (ANRs), and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk-Spanier cohomotopy groups. He has constructed various beautiful examples of topological spaces, e.g. an acyclic, … - Jacek Kuroń
Jacek Jan Kuroń was a Polish historian, dissident and opposition leader with the Solidarity movement. During his political career he was well known for his sensitivity to social issues. Jacek Kuroń's first contact with politics began in 1949 when he joined the Polish Youth Union (ZMP), a youth organisation closely affiliated with the Polish United Workers Party (PZPR). In 1952 he started working as a Scoutmaster in the Scouting section of this association. - Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish-born sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven there by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Communist Party of Poland. Professor of sociology at the University of Leeds (and since 1990 emeritus professor), Bauman has become best known for his analyses of the links between modernity and the Holocaust and of postmodern consumerism. - Jan Karski
Jan Karski, was a Polish World War II resistance fighter and scholar. He visited the Warsaw Ghetto after the summer 1942 deportations. Disguised as a guard, he then managed to enter what he thought was the Bełżec death camp for one day where he witnessed mass murder. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the British and U.S. governments on the situation in Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the extermination camps. - Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński - Polish poet and Home Army soldier. Baczyński was born in Warsaw in the family of renowned literary critic Stanisław Baczyński and school teacher Stefania Zieleńczyk. His mother was a Catholic. His uncle, Adam Zieleńczyk, escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto. During the German occupation of Poland he began to cooperate with the left-wing underground press, most notably with the "Płomienie" ("Flames") and "Droga" ("Way") magazines. - Samuel Eilenberg
Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York, USA where he had spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University. He earned his Ph.D. from Warsaw University in 1936. His thesis advisor was Karol Borsuk. His main interest was algebraic topology. He worked on the axiomatic treatment of homology theory with Norman Steenrod (whose names the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms bear), … - Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is a Polish author, journalist, social worker and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II. - Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922-1951) was a Polish writer and journalist, and a Holocaust survivor. Tadeusz Borowski was born in 1922 into the Polish community in Zhytomir, Ukraine, then part of the USSR. His parents became victims of the USSR spy-hunting psychosis. In 1926, his father, whose bookstore had been nationalized by the communists, was sent to a gulag in Karelia. His mother was arrested later the same year and sent to a gulag in Siberia, … - Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős, also Pál Erdős, in English Paul Erdos or Paul Erdös (March 26, 1913 - September 20, 1996), was an immensely prolific (and famously eccentric) Hungarian-born mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. - Longin Pastusiak
Longin Hieronim Pastusiak is a Polish politician. In 1959 Pastusiak earned his Master of Arts degree form Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Then in 1960 he received his Master of Arts degree from the Faculty of Journalism, Warsaw University. From 1961-1962 Pastusiak studied for a doctorate at the American University in Washington, DC. He received a PhD from the Faculty of History, … - Marek Kotański
Marek Kotański was a Polish charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people, including the homeless and those with HIV. He died in a car accident in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, near Warsaw. Kotański was a psychologist and a psychotherapist - he organized many projects to fight against social problems and helped alcoholics, drug addicts, people with HIV, ex-prisoners and homeless people. Among the organisations he created are Monar and Markot. - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (February 22, 1849 - February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician. He was born in Tula and attended Moscow University, studying mathematics and physics there from 1865 to 1869. His advisor was Nikolai Bugaev. He obtained a Master's Degree with a thesis submitted in 1871, then he taught at the University of Warsaw where he obtained a doctorate in 1874. He was appointed to a chair in the University of Warsaw in 1876. In 1894, Sonin moved to St. - Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
"'"' was a Polish politician from the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance, the Prime Minister of Poland from 1996 to Autumn 1997, the Foreign Minister of Poland in the governments of Leszek Miller (2001-2004) and Marek Belka (2004-2005), … - Bohdan Paczyński
Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars. Paczyński was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He was educated at the Warsaw University, and after his initial career in Poland he moved to the US in 1981. He was The Lyman Spitzer Jr. Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University. Paczyński was the initiator of Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE, … - Stefan Mazurkiewicz
Stefan Mazurkiewicz (born September 25 1888 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire - died June 19 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland) was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ("PAU"). His students included Karol Borsuk, Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Saks, and Antoni Zygmund. - Andrzej Mostowski
Andrzej Mostowski was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma. Born in Lwów, Austria-Hungary, Mostowski entered University of Warsaw in 1931. He was influenced by Kuratowski, Lindenbaum and Tarski. His Ph.D. came in 1939, officially directed by Kuratowski but in practice directed by Tarski who was a young lecturer at that time. - Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born October 27, 1942 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish liberal conservative political commentator and politician. Student of Faculty of Mathematics and (simultaneously) Faculty of Philosophy Warsaw University. In 1965 detainee, while studying psychology, law and sociology. In 1968 he was again arrested and relegated from university in connection with his participation in students' protests. - Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician and logician. - Karol Modzelewski
Karol Modzelewski is a Polish historian, writer and politician. Professor at the University of Wroclaw and the University of Warsaw, he was a member of the Polish United Workers Party but was expelled from it in 1964 for opposition to some policies of the party. Together with Jacek Kuroń he cowrote the Open Letter to the Party, for which he was imprisoned for 3 years. Took part in the Polish 1968 political crisis, … - Jan Łukasiewicz
Jan Łukasiewicz (21 December, 1878 - 13 February, 1956) was a Polish mathematician born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine). His major mathematical work centred on mathematical logic. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. - Aleksander Kamiński
Aleksander Kamiński codename: Kamyk, Dąbrowski, J. Dąbrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz Górecki, Hubert, Kaźmierczak (January 28, 1903, Warsaw - March 15, 1978, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish pedagogue, form tutor, author of Polish Cub Scout and Brownie method, writer, historian, Scoutmaster (harcmistrz), and soldier of the Armia Krajowa in the ranks of the Szare Szeregi during the Second World War. - Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin (Polish: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, sometimes "Szopen"; French: Frédéric François Chopin; English surname pronunciation: or ; March 1, 1810, Żelazowa Wola - October 17, 1849, Paris) was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the most famous, influential, and prolific composers for piano of all time. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, … - Wacław Sierpiński
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński, a Polish mathematician, was born and died in Warsaw. He was known for outstanding contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books. Three well-known fractals are named after him (the Sierpinski triangle, the Sierpinski carpet and the Sierpinski curve), … - Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus (pronounced: [[Media:Prus.oggnowiki>[bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]</nowiki>]]; Hrubieszów, August 20, 1847 - May 19, 1912, Warsaw), born Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist known especially for his novels, "The Doll" and "Pharaoh". An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the 1863 Uprising, in which he suffered severe battle contusions, … - Florian Znaniecki
Florian Witold Znaniecki (January 15 1882 - March 23 1958) was a philosopher and a sociologist. He taught and wrote in Poland and the United States. He was the 44th President of the American Sociological Association and the founder of academic sociology studies in Poland. His theoretical and methodological work contributed to the development of Sociology as a distinct academic discipline. - Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim (the surname comes from the Hebrew "טובים," "tovim"," "good"; September 13, 1894 – December 27, 1953) was a Jewish-Polish poet born in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire and educated in Łódź and Warsaw (he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University). In 1919 Tuwim co-founded the "Skamander" group of experimental poets with Antoni Słonimski and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. He was a major figure in Polish literature, … - Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 in Małoszyce, near Kielce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his first novel, "Ferdydurke", which presented many of his usual themes: the problems of immaturity and youth, … - Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz
Rafał Aleksander Ziemkiewicz is a Polish political fiction and science fiction author and journalist. During his studies at the University of Warsaw (Polish language and literature) in 1984 he joined SFAN science fiction fan association and started writing short stories. His first short story ("Z palcem na spuście") was published in 1982. His book debut was "Władca szczurów" (Warsaw), (1987). - Leszek Kołakowski
Leszek Kołakowski is a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analysis of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, "Main Currents of Marxism". - Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz is a Polish lawyer, screenwriter, and politician, who is currently a member of the Polish Parliament and head of the Ruch Społeczny (RS) or Social Movement Party. Piesiewicz studied law at Warsaw University and began practicing in 1973. Through the late 1970s he became increasingly involved in political cases, defending opponents of the Communist regime, serving as a legal advisor for Solidarity, … - Ludwik Dorn
Ludwik Dorn - Polish politician of Jewish origin, former Deputy Prime Minister, vice chairman of Law and Justice party, Member of Polish Parliament (Sejm). Former Minister of Interior and Administration - resigned on February 7, 2007, due to misunderstandings with the Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński. Elected a Sejm marshal on April 27, 2007, with 235 votes, after Marek Jurek's resign. Graduated sociology from Warsaw University in 1978. - Wojciech Wierzejski
Wojciech Wierzejski is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for Warsaw with the Liga Polskich Rodzin, part of the Independence and Democracy group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs. Wierzejski is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus. One month before the 2006 Warsaw GLBT parade, he remarked: "If the deviants will start demonstrating, … - Anna Zawadzka
Anna Zawadzka was a Polish teacher, author of textbooks, Scoutmaster (harcmistrzyni), sister of Tadeusz "Zośka" Zawadzki and daughter of professor Józef Zawadzki. During the years 1937-1942 she was a Girl Guides patrol leader. 1942-1944 she was the commander of the central Warsaw secret underground Grey Ranks ("Szare Szeregi") troop and took part in the Warsaw Rising in 1944. - Jan Olszewski
Jan Ferdynand Olszewski is a Polish lawyer and political figure. One of the most prominent leaders of independent movements in times of communism in Poland. He served as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland between December 23 1991 and June 5 1992. He is a leader of the Ruch Odbudowy Polski party. Jan Olszewski is strong supporter of the conservatist Law and Justice government and in the same time he is very hostile to leftist and liberal political forces in Poland.
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