[The century of Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS - the idea and will power].

The Institute was founded in 1918, shortly after the re-establishment of Poland as an independent country. It was based on three pre-existing laboratories affiliated with the Scientific Society of Warsaw. The formation and development of the Institute was supported in part by a donation of Nadine Sieber-Shumova, a close co-worker of Marceli Nencki from Berne and St.

[Bogdan Suchodolski--initiator and editor-in-chief of the publication History of Polish Science].

Among numerous and distinguished author's and editorial works of Bogdan Suchodolski a particular value presents a publication in eight volumes entitled 'History of Polish Science' (including two biographical and bibliographic volumes), which was published in the years 1970-1992 on Professor's own initiative and edited by himself. This is the first synthesis of the history of science in Poland, from the beginning of the Middle Ages till the present time (to 1952). In the conception of the initiator and editor the work presents the development of scientific thought and achievements of the scholars in relation to national culture and in connexions with the trends in science in the world.

[Konstanty Janicki: scientist, university professor, discoverer].

Janicki born in Moscow (1876) lived in Warsaw up to graduation from high school (1893). Then he emigrated to the Western Europe for the next 25 years. Janicki had studied and curried out scientific researches in the field of helminthology and protozoology at universities and institutes in Germany, Switzerland and Italy.