34 years Activity of the Foundation for Polish Science
90 Programmes completed
12600+ Stipends, grants and prizes
1.7 bn PLN Transferred to support science in Poland (EU and own funds)
Prof. Krzysztof Liberek
THE FNP PRIZE 2023
Professor Krzysztof Liberek from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Gdańsk and the Medical University of Gdańsk received the 2023 FNP Prize in the field of life sciences for demonstrating the role of chaperone proteins in recovering proteins from aggregates and folding them into the active form.
Prof. Marcin Stępień
THE FNP PRIZE 2023
Professor Marcin Stępień from the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Wrocław received the 2023 FNP Prize in the field of chemical and materials sciences for designing and obtaining new aromatic compounds with unique structures and properties.
Prof. Janusz Lewiński
THE FNP PRIZE 2024
Professor Janusz Lewiński from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology and the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences has received the 2024 FNP Prize in the field of chemical and materials sciences for the development of mechanochemical methods for the synthesis of perovskites, improving their photovoltaic properties.
Prof. Maria Lewicka
THE FNP PRIZE 2023
Professor Maria Lewicka, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, has been awarded the 2023 FNP Prize in the field of humanities and social sciences for formulating and validating a psychological model of place attachment and place memory.
Prof. Grzegorz Pierzyński
THE FNP PRIZE 2021
Professor Grzegorz Pietrzyński from the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw received the 2021 FNP Prize in mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences for the precise distance determination to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Prof. Ewa Górecka
THE FNP PRIZE 2020
Professor Ewa Górecka from the University of Warsaw received the FNP Prize 2020 in the field of chemical sciences and materials technology for obtaining liquid crystal materials with a chiral structure made of non-chiral molecules.
Prof. Krzysztof M. Górski
THE FNP PRIZE 2020
Professor Krzysztof M. Górski from the University of Warsaw and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), received the 2020 FNP Prize in the field of mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences for the development and implementation of the methodology of analysis of the relic radiation maps, crucial for understanding the early stages of evolution of the universe.
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