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1. Two members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The organization, whose team of experts includes Prof. Piotr Tryjanowski and Prof. Zbigniew Kundzewicz, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for their efforts to increase and spread knowledge about ...
2. Henryk Sienkiewicz
One of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 20th century, laureate of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for lifetime achievements. Born into an impoverished noble family using the Polis...
3. Władysław Reymont
Polish writer,laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature for his four-volume novel ‘Chłopi’ (The Peasants). Born on 7 May 1867 in Kobiele Wielkie to an organist, he graduated from the Warsaw Sunday-Cr...
4. Maria Skłodowska-Curie
...Nobel Prize in Physics. The second Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Marie alone in 1911. She was also the mother of another Nobel Prize winner – Irene Joliot-Curie. She was born on 7 November 1...
5. Skłodowska-Curie on the big screen
...Nobel to top it all off”. According to the film maker, such a colourful life deserves a full biographic film, which will be shown in cinemas all over the world.