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Ernest Malinowski: The 19th-Century Engineer Who Defended Peru

April 30, 2024
Ernest Malinowski’s dream was to build a railroad that “will reach the cloudsâ€. Born in...
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Our electronic devices are much faster thanks to a Polish scientist’s invention.

March 16, 2024
This is a story of a lonely genius inventor, and of several systems that failed...
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Hilary Koprowski: The Man who overcame polio and saved millions of lives

September 21, 2023
Hilary Koprowski (1916 – 2013) was a Polish virologist and immunologist active in the United...
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Copernicus – A True Renaissance Man

August 1, 2023
Mikołaj Kopernik (1473 – 1543) was a Renaissance-era astronomer who can accurately be described as...
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Polish Biologist Develops First Effective Typhus Vaccine and Secretly Treats Jews during World War 2

July 17, 2023
Rudolf Weigl (1883 – 1957) invented the first effective vaccine against epidemic typhus, a disease...
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Stanislaw Ulam – Brilliant mathematician with multiple innovations including the design of the H-Bomb

July 17, 2023
Stanisław Ulam (1909 – 1984) was a Polish-Jewish mathematician and nuclear physicist who later became...
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Marie Skłodowska Curie—First scientist to pioneer research on radioactivity

July 17, 2023
Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first...
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