Poland

POLAND in brief

Capital: Warsaw
Language: Polish
Population: 38 million
Currency: 1 zloty = 100 groszy
Area: 312,685 km2 (120,727 sqm)
Political system: Parliamentary democracy

Nobel Prize Winners:

Maria Sklodowska-Curie 1903 - with her husband Piotr Curie, in physics, for discovering polonium and radium;
1911 - in chemistry, for her work on chemical and physical characteristics of polonium and radium.
Henryk Sienkiewicz 1905 - in literature
Wladyslaw Reymont 1924 - in literature, for his novel "Chlopi"
Czeslaw Milosz 1980 - in literature
Lech Walesa 1983 - Peace Nobel Prize
Wislawa Szymborska 1996 - Nobel Prize in Literature

Kraków

 

SALT MINE WIELICZKA

 

BALICE

 

 

NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION
Department of Animal Immuno- and Cytogenetics

32-083 Balice ul. Krakowska 1, phone +48 666 081 326, fax: +48 12 2856733, e-mail: eslota@izoo.krakow.pl

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