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Who was the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize?

Who was the first Polish person to win a Nobel Prize?

Laureates

Year Winner Field
1903 Maria Skłodowska Curie Physics
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz Literature
1907 Albert A. Michelson Physics
1911 Maria Skłodowska Curie (2nd time) Chemistry

Who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2022?

“The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, with one half to David Card for his empirical contributions to labor economics, and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W.

Who Won Nobel Physics?

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in …

How many Nobel Prizes does Poland have?

19
Summary

Country Number of Nobel laureates (Number of Nobel Prizes)
Italy 21
Poland 18 (19)
Denmark 13
Hungary 13

Who was the first Polish president?

President of Poland

President of the Republic of Poland
Precursor Chief of State
Formation 11 December 1922
First holder Gabriel Narutowicz
Salary 294,000zł annually

Who was the Polish dictator?

Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕɛɣ ˈvitɔlt jaruˈzɛlskʲi] ( listen); 6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military officer, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People’s Republic from 1981 until 1989.

Who is the winner of 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics?

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 jointly to David Card of the University of California, Berkeley; Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.

Was Poland a Soviet country?

Like other Eastern Bloc countries (East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania), Poland was regarded as a satellite state in the Soviet sphere of interest, but it was never a constituent republic part in the Soviet Union.