The jubilee publication describes stories about researchers representing various sciences and living over the centuries. The book presents the background of the country’s history as well as international changes and breakthroughs as those scholars were participants and even causal factors of the events.<\/p>\n
Invited by the Polish Academy of Sciences, contemporary Polish authors describe\u00a0the biographies of outstanding scientists being often dramatic and strongly involved in history. In their short essays, they try to answer the question of whether science can make the world a better place.<\/p>\n
The book features not only famous scientists: Ignacy \u0141ukasiewicz, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Stefan Banach, Johannes Hevelius, Jan Czochralski, Bronis\u0142aw Malinowski or Maria Sk\u0142odowska-Curie, but also those less recognizable – e.g. Maria Zakrzewska, a doctor of Polish origin, who revolutionized the education of nurses and doctors in the USA, despite the limitations placed on women, or Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, a heroic nurse and legendary organizer of paleontological expeditions.<\/p>\n
The authors gave the formalized world of scientific theories a very personal, individual trait. Stories in the form of essays, stories, and even fairy tales were written by Stefan Chwin, \u0141ukasz Orbitowski, Sylwia Chutnik, Miko\u0142aj \u0141ozi\u0144ski, Inga Iwasi\u00f3w, \u0141ukasz Zawada and Joanna Bator. The texts are complemented by illustrations of scientists, sometimes in well-known historical poses with an original and contemporary approach.<\/p>\n
Each character in the book will have a unique place – a bench with a quote from the essay describing him. The benches will be placed in Aleja Lipowa PAN in the Botanical Garden in Powsin.<\/p>\n
Arkadiusz S\u0142omczy\u0144ski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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