For the twenty-ninth time, the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) has awarded the Foundation’s Prizes, which are recognized as the most important scientific awards in Poland.

Foundation for Polish Science granted its prizes for special achievements and scientific discoveries in the amount of PLN 200,000 PLN to:

Prof. Jacek Radwan of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań in the field of life and earth sciences for demonstrating the role of the evolutionary mechanism of optimizing genetic variation in shaping resistance to pathogens and tolerating own antigens.

Prof. Ewa Górecka of the University of Warsaw in the field of chemical sciences and materials for obtaining liquid crystal materials with a chiral structure made of non-chiral molecules.

Prof. Krzysztof M. Górski of the University of Warsaw and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the field of mathematical, physical and engineering sciences for the development and implementation of the methodology for the analysis of relic radiation maps, key to understanding the early stages of the evolution of the Universe.

Prof. Romuald Schild of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in the field of humanities and social sciences for pointing to the climatic and environmental determinants of socio-cultural processes in the Stone Age in North Africa and the European Lowlands.