The goal of the project is to popularize knowledge about the history of Polish science and showing the achievements of Polish medicine.
The project introduces the biographies of prominent Polish scientists whose achievements laid the foundation for today's modern medicine. The project presents researchers representing various fields of medicine, including:
orthopedics,surgery, gastrology, gynecology, ophthalmology, pharmacology, bacteriology, virology, microbiology, radiology or forensic medicine.
The result of the project is 12 popular science films designed for publishing on the Internet and for broadcasting on television.
Film biographies of 12 Polish scientists whose work has influenced the state of medicine today
The scientists whose stories we will present:
1) Edmund Biernacki (1866-1911) - a Polish pathologist who in 1897 discovered the connection between the rate of erythrocyte descent and the formation of inflammation or neoplastic processes, known in medicine as the Biernacki reaction.
2) Odon Bujwid (1857-1942) - a prominent bacteriologist, social activist and tireless popularizer of science.
3) Wiktor Dega (1896-1995) - orthopedist, one of the world's pioneers of medical rehabilitation.
4) Ryszard Jerzy Gryglewski (born 1932) - pharmacologist, creator of a new field of medicine - endothelial pharmacology, which allowed to establish the scientific foundation of modern pharmacotherapy of cardiovascular diseases.
5) Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954) - biologist, bacteriologist, immunologist, founder of seroanthropology. Co-discoverer (together with E. v. Dungern) of the laws of blood group inheritance.
6) Hilary Koprowski (1916-2013) - virologist and immunologist, developer of the vaccine,
causing polio disease.
7) Tadeusz Krwawicz (1910-1988) - one of the most prominent representatives of modern ophthalmology, especially in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the cornea, retina and lens.
8) Julian Nowak (1865-1946) - microbiologist and veterinarian, founder of the Institute of Veterinary Medicine and
Experimental Medicine of the Jagiellonian University and the Department of Veterinary Serum and Vaccine Production.
9) Karol Olszewski (1846-1915) - pioneered the use of X-rays in medical diagnosis. His achievements in the fields of physics and chemistry include the liquefaction of oxygen, the creation of an apparatus for its liquefaction, and the development of the cascade method of liquefaction, for which he was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times.
10) Maria Siemionow (born 1950) - microsurgeon and transplantologist. In 2008, together with his team
performed the fourth successful face transplant in the world, and the first in the US.
11) Anna Tomaszewicz-Dobrska (1854-1918) - the first female doctor on Polish soil.
She persistently popularized the principles of hygiene. In 1896, she was the first in Warsaw to perform a cesarean section.
12) Leon Wachholz (1867-1942) - author of the first modern textbooks on forensic medicine. Pioneer of many experimental methods in forensic medicine, including forensic psychopathology, toxicology, age determination of cadavers, dactyloscopy and death by drowning.
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About the project
The project is subsidized by the state budget under the program of the Minister of Education and Science called "Science for Society" project number NdS/546832/2022 , the amount of funding is 544,400.00 PLN.
Funding period: August 2022 - August 2024