
Poland
Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw
Poland
Science in Poland
The fact that the radioactive element polonium sounds a bit like "Poland" is no coincidence: it was discovered at the end of the 19th century by Marie Skłodowska-Curie, who named it after her home country. In addition to polonium, Curie also isolated the element radium for the first time. For this she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry - her second. She had already received the first one years earlier in physics, together with her husband Pierre Curie and Antoine Henri Becquerel, for their work on radioactivity.
Die Fakten
Population | 38,170,712 |
Fläche | 312,679 km² |
Bruttoinlandsprodukt pro Kopf in US-Dollar | 15,468.4 |
Öffentliche Ausgaben für Bildung (Anteil am BIP) | 5.0 % |
Anteil Wissenschaftlerinnen | 38.1 % |
Universitäten | 379 |
Universitäten pro 1 Mio. Einwohner | 9.90 |
Studenten | 1,430,981 |
Ausgaben für Forschung und Entwicklung | 1.2 |