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Polish Nobel laureates
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The list Polish Nobel laureates includes
Marie Curie, Shimon Peres, Menachem Begin, Lech Walesa and Henryk Sienkiewicz.
The list consists of 18 members.
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Marie Curie
Physicist and chemist
Overview: Marie Skłodowska Curie ( KEWR-ee; ), born Maria Salomea Skłodowska (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity ...Date of birth: 7 November 1867Date of death: 4 July 1934Age: 66 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: ScientistGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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Lech Walesa
President of Poland
Overview: Lech Wałęsa ( born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the first democratically elected president of Poland from 1990 to 1995. A shipyard ...Date of birth: 31 August 1943Age: 81Nationality: PolishOccupation: PoliticianGender: MalePartner: Miroslawa Danuta Golos (Married) 0
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Shimon Peres
Israeli politician
Overview: Shimon Peres (Hebrew: שמעון פרס born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923 – 28 September 2016) was an Israeli politician who served as the ninth President of Israel (2007–2014), the Prime Minister of Israel ...Date of birth: 2 August 1923Date of death: 28 September 2016Age: 93 (age at death)Nationality: IsraeliOccupation: Head of StateGender: Male 0
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Menachem Begin
6th Prime Minister of Israel (1913–1992)
Overview: Menachem Begin (Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין Menaḥem Begin (listen ); Polish: Mieczysław Biegun (Polish birth name), Polish: Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); Russian: Менахем Вольфович Бегин ...Date of birth: 16 August 1913Date of death: 9 March 1992Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: IsraeliOccupation: Head of StateGender: Male 0
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Wislawa Szymborska
Polish poet and Nobel laureate (1923–2012)
Overview: Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent, which has since become part of ...Date of birth: 2 July 1923Date of death: 1 February 2012Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: PoetGender: Female 0
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yiddish writer
Overview: Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of ...Date of birth: 21 November 1902Date of death: 24 July 1991Age: 88 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Olga Tokarczuk
Polish writer and politician
Overview: Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual who has been described in Poland as one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful ... 0
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Overview: Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( shen-KYAY-vitch, -KYEV-itch, 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos was a Polish journalist, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate ...Date of birth: 5 May 1846Date of death: 15 November 1916Age: 70 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: WriterGender: Male 0
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Leonid Hurwicz
Polish–American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
Overview: Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish-American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He originated the concept of incentive ...Date of birth: 21 August 1917Date of death: 24 June 2008Age: 90 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Economist 0
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Andrew Schally
Polish-American endocrinologist
Overview: Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally (30 November 1926 – 17 October 2024) was a Polish-American endocrinologist who was a co-recipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the Nobel Prize in ...Date of birth: 30 November 1926Date of death: 17 October 2024Age: 97 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Isidor Isaac Rabi
US physicist
Overview: Isidor Isaac Rabi (born Israel Isaac Rabi, July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which ...Date of birth: 29 July 1898Date of death: 11 January 1988Age: 89 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Scientist 0
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Czesław Miłosz
Poet
Overview: Czesław Miłosz (, , 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize ...Date of birth: 30 June 1911Date of death: 14 August 2004Age: 93 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: Writer 0
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Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist
Overview: Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport". Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during ...Date of birth: 4 November 1908Date of death: 31 August 2005Age: 96 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: Scientist 0
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Tadeus Reichstein
Polish chemist
Overview: Tadeusz Reichstein (20 July 1897 – 1 August 1996) was a Polish-Swiss chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950).Date of birth: 20 July 1897Date of death: 1 August 1996Age: 99 (age at death)Nationality: UkrainianOccupation: Chemist 0
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Walther Nernst
German scientist
Overview: Walther Hermann Nernst ForMemRS (25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid state physics. His formulation ...Date of birth: 25 June 1864Date of death: 18 November 1941Age: 77 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Inventor 0
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Władysław Reymont
Polish novelist
Overview: Władysław Reymont (born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi ...Date of birth: 7 May 1867Date of death: 5 December 1925Age: 58 (age at death)Nationality: PolishOccupation: NovelistGender: Male 0
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Roald Hoffmann
Nobel laureate organic and inorganic chemist and Holocaust child survivor
Overview: Roald Hoffmann (born Roald Safran; July 18, 1937) is a Polish-American theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He has also published plays and poetry. He is the Frank H. T. Rhodes ... 0
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Georges Charpak
French physicist
Overview: Georges Charpak (born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.Date of birth: 1 August 1924Date of death: 29 September 2010Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: FrenchOccupation: Scientist 0
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