Why have Poles contributed so little to Academics? (Particularly Science)

brussels-innova.com/eureka/medals.aspx

Unfortunately, the link provided shows there to be not many participants, and also : Romania won a shed-load of medals too.

Do try harder.

it says 450

For all the bad rap they get even Romanians prove to be smarter than your average Jew, go figure.

Polish Cipher Bureau (Biuro Szyfrów) is comparable to National Codes and Cipher Centre (Blechley Park) or to modern American National Security Agency. So as such it is not science but organization, which however, employs people who conduct science per se - cryptography/cryptology, rooted in mathematics and computer science.

As a matter of fact, the article you linked, mentions three world-famous professors of mathematics, who used breaking Soviet codes — Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Wacław Sierpiński and Stanisław Leśniewski. They were in fact part of so-called Polish School of Mathematics. But I have already mentioned them before. To compensate for a disappointment, I attach a small fractal - Sierpinski's Triangle. Yes, this is the same guy. :-)

Jerzy Różycki, Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski - the Enigma guys, initially trained at Poznań University - were already mentioned too in this thread. And again, they were mathematicians (but not from Polish School of Mathematics), employing mathematical principles - probability theory, graph theory and such. But the article you pointed out is interesting - as it shows all that background.

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Poles have contributed much to academia...As far as the Nobel prize, a Polish mathematician won either last year or the year before.

Jews have made it a point to 'guerrilla' academia, and this is why you will find them prominent, in publicity terms, in 'affairs acameme'...Same for the the committees that award various prizes, including Nobel.

Jews are also 'prominent' in the at world, but show me a good Jewish artist, other than maybe Szyk...They produce ugly crap.

There are some amazing photos of those guys in the Academy of Sciences building. Stefan Banach too.

Jack W. Szostak*, Physiology or Medicine, 2009

Jack William Szostak (born November 9, 1952)[2] is a Canadian American[3] biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

"My grandparents emigrated from Poland to the U.S.A. I was born in London, and then lived in Canada. Unfortunately, I do not speak Polish, but I eagerly confess to my Polish roots"

He's on the the United Kingdom list....But is proud of his Polish heritage.

Here is another one,controversial but neverless contributed great deal to the society

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Burzynski

burzynskimovie.com

This thread still going ?Do not tell me that some troll keep you going for weeks?

You know, it still continues to amaze me that Polish School of Mathematics started as a vision of a well planned and executed program that actually succeeded.


wfu.edu/~kuz/Stamps/PolishSchool/PolishSchool.htm

jewish attorneys invented trolling

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation

This thread is stupid. There were/are many Polish people who contributed to the sciences. Many of the posters listed a lot of them. I'll add one more to the list. Bronislaw Malinowski. He is the founder of social anthropology.

the title of this thread is so trollish.

I should have said that instead.

hes betting on that the casual observer will read the title alone and not bother reading the thread.

so then the title(s) itself becomes the thread.

it should read why am i trolling PF (history in particular)

Oops, I forgot the Risings. Sorry.

thanks, I knew I wasnt cracking up...I just got my Bronislaw Malinowski mixed up with my Jacob Bronowski :)

His best known book is Sex and Repression in Savage Society!

I read it when a child. Fascinating reading.

Polonthemeds, Copernicus was NOT fully Polish and that's just a fact. Neither was he fully German for those that claim he was.

Nobody has mentioned the great Jan Miodek. He has really raised the profile of Polish philology and linguistics. A deep thinker with an analytical mind.

Astronomy in Poland is actually quite strong, maybe not top 3 in the world but definitely at least top 15.

The reason why Polish science doesn't have much international achievements is not really communism and especially not the war... but domestic pathologies like lack of pressure on scientists to actually make some real inventions, not just produce tonnes of useless papers... complicated procedures regarding patents, hardly any cooperation between scientists and business, hadly any venture capital etc. which all together create anti-innovation environment and when nevertheless Poles invent something, often someone else makes money on it, see blue laser for example. Once these things are fixed, we should easily make it to upper 2nd global leage within a decade as that's a natural place for Poland. More than that would be very difficult as a country is simply too small to be a super power of any kind.

Yes, why do not tall him that you take shower everyday not twice a year and that you know what electricity is ?

Gee, you are an easy meat for a troll.

Why Poles contributed so little ? In comparison to whom?

Germans?

Or Scots :)

I'm not really intending to discuss anything with this guy (Harry, Delphi or whoever he is) but people bringing up "Copernicus" or saying that Polish science is crap due to WW2 made me to write a few lines on real problems of Polish science...

Because they enjoyed life and others were struggling to survive on scraps !

Or J.............ugoslavians ;)

I know your intentions were good, but please stop apologizing. There is nothing to ashamed of. Your astronomy example is good, so let me expand a bit:


(There is an OGLE thread somewhere on PF, which I started long ago)

Personally, I was trying to keep my contribution to this thread at reasonably low profile - mostly responding to direct attacks from trolls, or expanding on some cases. But unfortunately this cannot be handled this way, because everybody has their own tactics: ranging from complete disregard of trolls, to apologizing, to giving trivial examples.

I wanted to post something like this, good post.

I also think that the partitions made life for scientists difficult. Some scientists, like skłodowska, pursued their studies/work regardless of the situation in Poland. I'm sure many just threw in the towel or succumbed to the policies of germanization or russification.

It unquestionably had an impact. Poland has great potential in this area.