LwowskaKrakow: Mikolaj Kopernik( Copernicus) Marie Curie- Sklodowska
Two is all you can think of? I'm not impressed.
Well...one and a half is all you could think of since Copernicus was half German.
Palivec: Poland was less urbanized (don't know the exact numbers, but the eastern part was 27% vs. 44% for Eastern Germany). Poland was also controlled by foreign powers (which didn't invest in education for Poles) during the 19th and early 20th century, when science literally exploded. That's why most educational institutions in Poland were founded only after 1918, and soon after Poland became part of the Soviet block, which wasn't interested in high education for the masses.
That doesn't explain the fact that Jews still were able to excel in science while Christian Poles didn't. Don't blame this on the Soviet block as Jews were persecuted during that time and went through much worse.
a.k.: Probably he is another person who thinks she was French. If someone is asking such question should first educate himself. TheAttorney45 what do you think why she called an element she discovered polon? She was born in Warsaw to Polish family. As an adult person she emigarted to France. Then she married Pierre Curie. She won 2 Noble Prizes, one with her husband.
Stop being so presumptuous. I never denied that she was Polish. Yes, she did win 2 Nobel Prizes (it's Nobel, not Noble like you spelled it jeez) but the fact still remains that most Nobel Prizes won by Poles in physics (and probably chemistry too) were awarded to Jews. It's kind of sad that Poland's Jewish minority has done more work in science than the rest of Poles.
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