WINCENTY LUTOSŁAWSKI AND HIS INTEREST IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE LIGHT OF THE CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESSED TO THE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION

Author found and gave to print unknown letters of Vilnius philosopher and scholar, Wincenty Lutosławski to Stefan Mierzwa, executive director of the Kosciuszko Foundation – the source kept in the Archives of the Koscius...

GÓRSKIE OBSERWATORIA ASTRONOMICZNE W PRZEDWOJENNEJ POLSCE (HISTORIA I STAN WSPÓŁCZESNY)

From vaseline to the silicon revolution: the unusual history of the greatest Polish discovery that changed the world

In August 2016 exactly one hundred years passed from the discovery of the Czochralski method of single crystal pulling, named after Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), the Polish chemist and metallurgist. To celebrate this anni...

Sprawozdanie Komisji Historii Nauki PAU w roku 2016/2017

The report discusses the activities of the Commission on the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016/2017. It presents the lists of: scientific meeting, conferences, and new publications.

On social and psychological aspects of a negligible reception of Natanson’s article of 1911 in the early history of quantum statistics

Possible reasons are studied why Ladislas (Władysław) Natanson’s paper on the statistical theory of radiation, published in 1911 both in English and in the German translation, was not cited properly in the early history...