Timeline of Polish science and technology
Education has been of prime interest to Poland's rulers since the early 12th century. The catalog of the library of the Cathedral Chapter in Kraków dating from 1110 shows that Polish scholars already then had access to western European literature. In 1364, King Casimir III the Great founded the Cracow Academy, which would become one of the great universities of Europe. The Polish people have made considerable contributions in the fields of science, technology and mathematics. The list of famous scientists in Poland begins in earnest with the polymath, astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated the heliocentric theory and sparked the European Scientific Revolution.
ESO accession agreement with Poland 2014.
Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish academy of sciences, and Copernicus Monument.
Mandelbrot Set
Aleksander Wolszczan is credited with discovering the first extrasolar planet PSR B1257+12.
Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile.
Ignacy Domeyko
Krakowskie Przedmieście 64, Warsaw, with plaque (opposite) commemorating Domeyko
Plaque commemorating the "distinguished son of the Polish nation and eminent citizen of Chile"
Bust of Domeyko, University of Chile