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Wroclaw University
In the current academic year, over 1200 international students have enrolled for full-time courses at University of Wrocław most of them come from India, Ukraine, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. This figure has doubled compared to full-time students that the University had in the previous academic year.

Most of the international students come from the countries in which University of Wrocław has consistently been promoted by its International Office. As a result of the Office’s cooperation with local partners and its active participation in university fairs, potential foreign candidates no longer perceive University of Wrocław simply as an unfamiliar institution with a generic website.

University of Wrocław has students of over one hundred different nationalities, coming from very diverse cultural backgrounds. Despite the differences among them, the international students are very willing to integrate; they eagerly join the volunteer organisations and participate in numerous projects (such as University’s International Orchestra).

The steadily growing number of international students is a result of the continued efforts of the International Office, achieved through opening new courses based on market demands and ensuring high quality of education and student support.

Be inspired by prominent personalities of the polish science & culture. You probably already heard them.

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
was a Renaissance astronomer and the first European to contend that it is the Sun, not the Earth, that is at the centre of the Solar System.

Karol Olszewski (1846-1915) and Zygmunt Wróblewski (1845-1888)
were the first scholars in the world who liquefied oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a stable state (1883). Olszewski was also the first to liquefy hydrogen, achieving a record low temperature of -225 °C (1884).

Maria Skłodowska-Curie (1867-1934)
was a physicist-chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman ever to receive the degree of a Doctor of Science and the first female professor appointed at the Sorbonne. To this day, Skłodowska-Curie remains the only woman who received two Nobel Prizes, and the only scientist in history to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in two different fields of study (physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911).

Henryk Arctowski (1871–1958)
was a Polish scientist, oceanographer and Antarctica’s explorer whose name has been given to a number of geographical features in Antarctica and in Spitsbergen.

Jan Czochralski (1885-1953)
was a chemist who discovered a method of growing single crystals and laid foundations for today’s electronics. Without his invention, today we wouldn’t have computers, television sets, telephones, microwave ovens etc.

Stefan Banach (1892-1945)
was a mathematics prodigy who founded one of the most important mathematical fields – functional analysis. He also founded and led the Lwów School of Mathematics to research this branch of mathematics.

Kazimierz Michałowski (1901-1981)
was an archaeologist and Egyptologist who made many discoveries in Egypt, Sudan and Crimea, and founded Nubiology, an archeological science concerned with the scientific study of Ancient Nubia and its antiquities. Today his work is continued by expeditions of Polish scientists, who have excavated many splendid masterpieces of ancient architecture, art and ceramics, revealing spectacular facts about the ancient reality.

Zbigniew Religa (1938-2009)
was a cardiac surgeon and Minister of Health from 2005 to 2007; he was a pioneer in human heart transplantation in Poland. In 2004 together with his team he obtained a prestigious “Brussels Eureka” award at the World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and Technology for developing an implantable pump for a pneumatic heart assistance system.

Sylwester Porowski (born 1938)
is a physicist who built – with his team – a blue semiconductor laser (2001) with a groundbreaking method, which allows applying the laser in medical diagnostic tests, environmental monitoring and in the production of new generation of televisions, video projectors and various storage media.

Aleksander Wolszczan (born 1946)
is an astronomer who found the first evidence for the existence of an extrasolar planetary system and pulsar planets in 1992 (together with Dale Frail).

Andrzej Udalski (born 1957)
is an astronomer and leader of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. This project, run since 1992, has already brought numerous breakthrough discoveries, including discoveries of many planets outside our solar system. In 2009 the team obtained the prestigious Advanced Investigators Grant of 2.5 million Euro from the European Research Council for continuing the project.

Agnieszka Zalewska (born 1948)
is a Professor at the H. Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow. She has a distinguished career in particle physics and a long association with CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). From 1th January 2013 she is a President of CERN council.

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