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JonnyMThreads: 16
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Joined: Mar 9, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 2, 12, 23:18    #91
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Sendivogius

An interesting man. Poland doesn't lack alchemists even today...
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Joined: Jul 2, 09 ♂ 		 Feb 3, 12, 00:01    #92
JonnyM:
The world will be a better place once nobody has such technology.

The genie can't be put back in the bottle so easily.
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Joined: Jun 28, 11  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Feb 3, 12, 07:58    #93
Polish born physicist and optics theoretician, Georges Nomarski is credited with numerous inventions and patents including Nomarski interference contrast (NIC), the method is widely used to study live biological specimens and unstained tissues.
Nomarski improved the method for detecting optical gradients in transparent specimens and converting them into intensity differences. The applications of his design, which are collectively referred to as differential interference contrast (DIC), are most important in cell biology and in examination of surface textures in the materials sciences.
Nomarski was born on January 6, 1919 in the city of Nowy Targ (Poland), began his education in Warsaw and served in the Polish Resistance during World War II.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/nomarski.html
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 3, 12, 17:52    #94
Year 2011:
Polish inventors won 95 out of more than 232 awarded medals at the important international exhibition of inventions Brussels Innova. It is over three times more than the next most awarded country, Romania. The exhibition took place in Brussels on 17-19 November. Out of 12 gold medals with mention awarded in Belgium, the most, as many as five, went to the Poles.

Nauka w Polsce

Altogether 26 gold medals were awarded to Poles.
The details are available on the Brussels Innova web page, http://www.brussels-innova.com/eureka/2011/inventions.aspx . Just select an industry sector (blank - all sectors) and a country (blank - all countries) and investigate if you wish.

To put it all in perspective, there were only 15 countries present in that exhibition: Algeria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Iran, Malaysia, Moldova, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sudan, UK. France won five medals, UK - one, Belgium - 17.

I am especially pleased to find on that list of 26 gold medalists for Poland a name of a man I used to work with at the same institution long time ago. And I like and appreciate their invention.
JonnyMThreads: 16
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Joined: Mar 9, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 3, 12, 17:59    #95
ShawnH:
The genie can't be put back in the bottle so easily.

And this is the problem.
EM_WaveThreads: 20
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Joined: Nov 11, 11 ♂ [Suspended] 		 Feb 6, 12, 11:45    #96
This isn't exactly an invention, but Aleksander Wolszczan was a co-discoverer of the first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets.
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 9, 12, 23:27    #97
Władysław Tryliński (1878-1956) - Polish transportation engineer. He invented and patented (1935) a technology of road paving with hexagonal pre-cast concrete-stone blocks - nicknamed "trylinka" after his surname.
The production of blocks was started in Brest (now Belarus) in the 1930s. The blocks were used to pave roads in Brest and other towns near Brest. The road Kobrin - Pinsk was paved with "trylinka". The pavement was strong enough to withstand numerous tanks and various heavy laden vehicles during the devastating war from 1941 till 1944. This type appeared to be the strongest of other types, invented in the 1930s. In the course of road reconstruction in the recent decade most of the trylinka pavement was replaced by asphalt. Fortunately, it remained, so far, in the Brest Fortress, in Pinsk, Stolin and some other places of Brest region.

http://region.brest-belarus.org/tri/tri.htm
http://region.brest-belarus.org/images/trilinka.jpg , Two blocks of trylinka by the road - after the pavement was replaced by asphalt.
http://region.brest-belarus.org/images/tryl_brest.jpg , Trylinka in the Brest Fortress
http://region.brest-belarus.org/stolin/hf2008/len8.jpg , Trylinka in Sovietskaya Street, Stolin
http://region.brest-belarus.org/stolin/p05.jpg, Trylinka in old park Stolin
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Tryl_stol.jpg, Trylinka on the road Stolin-Pińsk
See also Polish wikipedia, with some technical details, http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trylinka
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Joined: Jun 28, 11  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Feb 9, 12, 23:51    #98
Has anyone mentioned Sławomir Skręta, and his crimes against humanity?
He has a lot to answer for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Skr%C4%99ta
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 Feb 15, 12, 12:15    #99
Sznajd model - one of the most popular physical models of social interaction. This belongs to a new branch of science known as sociophysics.

Józef Sznajd and his daughter Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron invented this model around year 2000. It is roughly based on the Ising model of interacting spins in ferromagnetic lattices but it is applied to social settings: politics, elections, advertisement, opinion forming and influencing, etc. The model is becoming more and more popular, and there are many publications in this area as recent as 2011. Just google: Sznajd model.

The people:
Prof. dr. Józef Sznajd (b.1947), Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław.
Dr hab. Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron (b.1971), Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław

Introductory blog article: Push Me, Pull Me. How Peer Pressure Works Along Scientific Laws.
http://www.fressadi.com/blog/?p=298

The website of Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron: http://www.ift.uni.wroc.pl/~kweron/index.html
with pointers to her publications and to a bunch of easy conference lectures.

You may also try arxiv.org e-print publications, by googling "sznajd model". These articles are relatively easy to understand.
Try for example: "Sznajd model and its applications" by K. Sznajd-Weron, 2005, http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0503239

[Specifically recommended for Gumishu, Ironside and all the people who think that Polish media is a king in forming political opinions. Actually not, this is only partially true. The model, its simulations and the real life comparisons, such as elections in Brazil, are quite interesting actually.]
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Joined: Apr 13, 11 ♂ 		 Mar 2, 12, 02:33    #100
Jerzy Rudlicki (1893-1977) was a Polish aerospace engineer who invented and in 1930 patented the V-tail, a.k.a. Butterfly tail (Polish patent# 15938) configuration for aircraft combining the ailerons and elevators in one system. See V-tail, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-tail

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