* 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologian, historian, astronomer, and writer ( d. 1675 )

SOHO's 2000th comet was discovered by Polish amateur astronomer Michał Kusiak on 26 December 2010, and the numbers are expected to continue rising steadily for the foreseeable future.

A great breakthrough in astronomy was made by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), who proposed in 1543 the heliocentric model of the solar system.

* 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( d. 1652 )

* November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( b. 1585 )

* November 1 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( d. 1652 )

** Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer ( b. 1445 )

* date unknown – Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer ( d. 1497 )

In a letter to Józef Łęcki, the Polish astronomer, he wrote: " I consider it an honour to be a genuine Pole, even though I am now living in Germany ".

It was created in 1684 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius ( Jan Heweliusz ), who originally named it Scutum Sobiescianum ( Shield of Sobieski ) to commemorate the victory of the Polish forces led by King John III Sobieski ( Jan III Sobieski ) in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

1497, Vilnius ) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician, philosopher and diplomat.

* József Wodetzky ( 1872 – 1956 ), Hungarian astronomer of Polish descent

He was associated with the philosopher Thomas Aquinas, the mathematician John Campanus, the Polish naturalist and physician Witelo, and the astronomer Henri Bate of Mechlin, who dedicated to William his treatise on the astrolabe.

Here, in 1450, Polish astronomer Leonard Vitreatoris and dean of Krakow Academy was born.

Aleksander Wolszczan ( born 29 April 1946 in Szczecinek, Poland ) is a Polish astronomer.

Konrad Maria Pawel Rudnicki, a Polish astronomer who was also a priest and professor of the Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites.

* November 21-Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician and astronomer ( born 1585 )

* Piotr Zaleski ( 1850 – 1916 ), Polish traveller, astronomer, geodesist, officer

PSR B1257 + 12 was discovered by the Polish astronomer Aleksander Wolszczan in 1990 using the Arecibo radio telescope.

Jan Brożek ( Ioannes Broscius, Joannes Broscius or Johannes Broscius ; 1 November 1585 – 21 November 1652 ) was a Polish polymath: a mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector of the Kraków Academy.

Konrad Rudnicki ( born 2 July 1926 in Warsaw, Poland ) is a Polish astronomer, professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and priest of the Mariavite Church.

Tadeusz Banachiewicz ( 13 February 1882, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – 17 November 1954, Kraków ) was a Polish astronomer, mathematician and geodesist.

Władysław Dziewulski ( 1878 – February 6, 1962 ) was a Polish astronomer and mathematician.

The city's Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń | Nicolaus Copernicus University is an important Polish higher education establishment

Thorvaldsen produced some striking and affecting statues of historic figures, including two in Warsaw, Poland: an equestrian statue of Prince Józef Poniatowski that now stands before the Presidential Palace ; and the seated Nicolaus Copernicus, before the Polish Academy of Sciences building — both located on Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmieście.

Ossolineum, famous library from Lviv, is now located in Wrocław, Polish academics from Lviv established Polish-language University of Wrocław ( taking over from the old German University of Breslau ) and Silesian University of Technology, at the same time, Polish academics from Vilnius opened Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

* Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences

In 1945 the Polish community of students and scholars of Stafan Batory University was transferred to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

Heckmann also served as President of the International Astronomical Union in 1967, and following a Polish request and under the impression of German acts in Poland during World War II, made the controversial decision to hold an Extraordinary IAU General Assembly in February 1973 in Warsaw, Poland, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus, shortly after the regular 1973 GA was held in Australia.

In 1989 he received the San Marino Award for Medicine and the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Following the 500th anniversary of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( called Mikolaj Kopernik in Polish ) in 1973, the Space Center was built by the Kopernik Society of Broome County and opened to the public in June 1974.

The Nicolaus Copernicus University Polar Station is the northernmost Polish scientific institution.

On December 6, 2005 the airport was renamed after the famous astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ( in Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik ).

Koprowski's numerous awards and distinctions include a Fulbright Scholarship, the Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia ( 1959 ), Belgium's Royal Order of the Lion, the French Order of Merit for Research and Invention, the San Marino Award for Medicine ( 1989 ), the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Philadelphia Cancer Research Award, the John Scott Award, the Philadelphia Award ( May 1990 ), the title of " Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland " ( 1995 ), the Legion d ' Honneur ( 1997 ), the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( 1998 ), and the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal ( 2007 ).

Having been heavily ( 70 %) damaged in World War II, it was rebuilt by Polish Boy Scouts in 1966-1973, in time for the 500th anniversary of Copernicus ' birth.

* Copernicus ( film ), a 1973 Polish film

Like many neighborhoods on the Northwest Side of Chicago the neighborhood has a heavy Polish-American presence, and is home to the Copernicus Foundation, the Polish parish of St. Constance, as well as a host of other Polish-American organizations, institutions and businesses.

His three-decade-long personal survey of Copernicus ’ great book De revolutionibus was recounted in The Book Nobody Read, published in 2004 by Walker & Co. That book and the research behind it earned him the Polish government ’ s Order of Merit in 1981.

In 1974, after he had joined the Maine faculty, he was the only American invited by the Polish Academy of Science to visit Poland for the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus.

In 1979, the historic Gateway Theatre in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago was purchased by the Copernicus Foundation with the intention of converting it into the seat of the Polish Cultural and Civic Center.

Smoluchowski was a member of the Copernicus Society of Natural Scientists and the Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

His work earned him an honored place in mathematics alongside such Polish mathematicians as Wojciech Brudzewski, Jan Brożek ( Broscius ), Nicolas Copernicus, Samuel Dickstein, Stefan Banach, Stefan Bergman, Marian Rejewski, Wacław Sierpiński, Stanisław Zaremba and Witold Hurewicz.

* 1854, Warsaw, with Polish translation and the authentic preface by Copernicus.

* May 24-Nicolaus Copernicus ( born 1473 ), Polish astronomer.

In 1516, he was the co-author, together with Copernicus, of a letter to the Polish King Sigismund I the Old asking for the King's protection of Prussia against the Teutonic Knights, and generally supported the interests of the Polish Crown against that of the Teutonic Order.