Most Famous Polish Scientists
Poland has produced 160 notable scientists throughout history, led by Marie Curie. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.
Category All
Citizenship All
MC
Marie Curie Polish Physicist 1867 – 1934
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66
NC
Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Astronomer 1473 – 1543
#
161
LL
L. L. Zamenhof Polish Linguist 1859 – 1917
#
3,178
IM
Ignacy Mościcki Polish Chemist 1867 – 1946
#
15,500
JN
Jerzy Neyman Polish Mathematician 1894 – 1981
#
18,116
JP
Jan Potocki Polish Anthropologist 1761 – 1815
#
19,057
OR
Oskar R. Lange Polish Economist 1904 – 1965
#
23,469
HS
Hugo Steinhaus Polish Mathematician 1887 – 1972
#
25,554
FA
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski Polish Physicist 1878 – 1945
#
27,955
WG
Władysław Grabski Polish Economist 1874 – 1938
#
28,885
JM
Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński Polish Mathematician 1776 – 1853
#
29,980
AD
Adam Darski Polish Curator Born 1977
#
34,285
EL
Emil Leon Post Polish Mathematician 1897 – 1954
#
35,285
S
Sendivogius Polish Chemist 1566 – 1636
#
43,485
RW
Rudolf Weigl Polish Biologist 1883 – 1957
#
48,948
IŁ
Ignacy Łukasiewicz Polish Chemist 1822 – 1882
#
53,197
JŚ
Jan Śniadecki Polish Mathematician 1756 – 1830
#
54,200
ZR
Zbigniew Religa Polish Surgeon 1938 – 2009
#
61,248
KM
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski Polish Chemist Born 1950
#
62,023
LS
Leo Sternbach Polish Chemist 1908 – 2005
#
63,172