The Nicolaus Copernicus Award for three of our scholars
The Nicolaus Copernicus Scientific Award, granted every five years, will this year go to three of our researchers:
– in the category of Economics: prof. dr hab. Mateusz Machaj from the Department of General Economic Theory (Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics)
– in the category of Mathematics: prof. dr hab. Mariusz Mirek from the Department of Functional Analysis (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)
– in the category of Classical Philology: dr hab. Karol Zieliński, prof. UWr, from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on the Relations between Oral and Written Culture
Congratulations!
About the award:
On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’s birth in 1873, the Municipality of Kraków established a foundation bearing his name and entrusted the Academy of Learning with awarding, every five years, prizes funded by this foundation for scholarly works in the field of astronomy and related sciences, including astrophysics, geodesy, physical geography, geomagnetism and meteorology. The awarding of these prizes was interrupted by the Second World War.
Wishing to continue this tradition, the Kraków City Council, on the five-hundredth anniversary of Copernicus’s studies in Kraków, established the Nicolaus Copernicus Award in the field of astronomy and other disciplines practised by Copernicus, entrusting the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences with awarding the prize every five years, beginning in 1995.
The prize is awarded in nine equivalent categories to scholars associated with Polish science who, in the five years preceding the award year, have published works of exceptionally high scholarly value in the following fields: (1) astronomy, (2) economics, (3) classical philology, (4) natural philosophy, (5) cosmology and astrophysics, (6) mathematics, (7) medicine, (8) Earth sciences, and (9) law.
Date of publication: 21.11.2025
Added by: S.F.
