The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN), headquartered in Warsaw, is Poland's top academy of sciences. It is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars as well as a network of research institutes. It was established in 1951, during the early period of the Polish People's Republic following World War II.
The Polish Academy of Sciences PAN, is a Polish state sponsored institution of higher learning, headquartered in Warsaw, that was established by the merger of earlier learned 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, which had been founded in the late 18th century.
The Polish Academy of Sciences functions as a learned society acting through an elected corporation 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 dozens) research institutes. PAN institutes employ over 2,000 people, and are funded by about a third of the Polish government's budget for science.
In 1989, the Polish Academy of Learning in Kraków, resumed its independent existence, separate from the Polish Academy of Sciences, in Warsaw.
The Polish Academy of Sciences has numerous institutes including:
Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry
Bohdan Dobrzański Institute of Agrophysics
Institute of Fundamental Technological Research
Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science
Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences - established, 1954, became an independent institute in 1974; publishes the journal Pharmacological Reports.
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Józef Barnaś, physicist
Andrzej Białas, physicist
Tomasz Dietl, physicist
Maria Janion, scholar, critic and theoretician of literature
Zbigniew Jedliński, chemist
Tadeusz A. Jezierski, ethologist
Leszek Kaczmarek, neurobiologist
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, paleontologist
Franciszek Kokot, nephrologist
Stanisław Konturek, physician
Leszek Kołakowski, philosopher
Roman Kozłowski, paleontologist
Mieczysław Mąkosza, chemist
Karol Myśliwiec, archeologist
Ewa Łętowska, lawyer and the first Polish Ombudsman
Rafal Ohme, social psychologist
Czesław Olech, mathematician
Bohdan Paczyński, astrophysicist
Andrzej Schinzel, mathematician
Jan Strelau, psychologist
Piotr Sztompka, sociologist
Andrzej Trautman, physicist
Andrzej Udalski, astrophysicist and astronomer
Jerzy Vetulani, pharmacologist and neurobiologist
Jan Woleński, philosopher
Aleksander Wolszczan, astronomer
Stanisław Zagaja, pomologist, professor and director of Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture
Maciej Żylicz, biologist and President of the Board of Foundation for Polish Science
Wanda Leopold, author, translator, and literature critic
Aage Bohr, physicist
Joseph H. Eberly, physicist
Erol Gelenbe, computer scientist and engineer
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Polish chemist working at Carnegie Mellon University
Karl Alexander Müller, physicist
Roger Penrose, mathematician
Carlo Rubbia, physicist
Boleslaw Szymanski, computer scientist
Chen Ning Yang, physicist
George Zarnecki, art historian
Acta Arithmetica
Acta Ornithologica
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Acta Physica Polonica
Annales Zoologici
Archaeologia Polona
Fundamenta Mathematicae
