We are presenting Volume 20 of our annual „Nauka Polska – Jej Potrzeby, Organizacja i Rozwój” (Polish Science – Requirements, Organization and Development”
„Nauka Polska. Jej Potrzeby, Organizacja i Rozwój”, T. XX (XLV), 2011
From the Editors
The present version of the „Nauka Polska – Jej Potrzeby, Organizacja i Rozwój” (Polish Science – Requirements, Organisation and Development) does not differ greatly from its predecessor. Within the section Discussion Concerning Science and Issues of Science the reader will find articles relative to the current concerns of organization of science and the scientific policies in Poland, while the section Studies and Materials in the History of Science provides autobiographies and biographies of outstanding scholars, and a wide range of reports, with annual accounts of the doings of the Mianowski Fund – Foundation for the Promotion of Science: list of fellowship holders and the evaluation of the fellowship funding activities of the institution.
See the table of contents.
The Mianowski Fund publishes the annual “POLISH SCIENCE: REQUIREMENTS, ORGANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT”, a continuation of the periodical which appeared in the years 1918-1947. This publicaton is devoted to current problems and perspectives of Polish science, as well as matters concerning organization and financing of the scientific research. Papers relating to history of science, biographies of eminent academics and annual reports on activities of the Mianowski Fund from a integral part of the periodical. Each volume contains also a list of visiting scholars, supported in the framework of Scholarship Programme in the past year.
Programme Council: Osman Achmatowicz, Ireneusz Białecki, Adam Bielański, Roman Duda, Maciej W. Grabski, Janusz Grzelak, Józef Hurwic, Piotr Hübner, Helmut Juros, Jerzy Kłoczowski, Gerard Labuda, Jerzy Osiowski, Henryk Samsonowicz, Jerzy Szacki, Andrzej Śródka, Janusz Tazbir, Andrzej Tomczak, Jerzy Wyrozumski, Andrzej Ziabicki and Mariusz M. Żydowo.
Editorial office: Andrzej Biernacki, Małgorzata Dąbrowa-Szefler, Wojciech Gasparski, Jan Piskurewicz, Andrzej Strzałecki, Andrzej Śródka (Editor in Chief), Stefan Zamecki and Leszek Zasztowt.