EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Krakow, Poland

Founding Date:
1364

Motto:
Plus ratio quam vis

Enrollment:
41,000

Official Website:
http://www.uj.edu.pl/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Peter Brock	Historian	30-Jan-1920	29-May-2006	Pacifism in the United States
Nicolaus Copernicus	Astronomer	19-Feb-1473	24-May-1543	Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus
Artur Ekert	Physicist	19-Sep-1961		Quantum cryptography
Pope John Paul II	Religion	18-May-1920	2-Apr-2005	Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1978-2005
Stanislaw Lem	Author	12-Sep-1921	27-Mar-2006	Solaris
Bronislaw Malinowski	Anthropologist	7-Apr-1884	16-May-1942	Founder of social anthropology
Carl Menger	Economist	28-Feb-1840	26-Feb-1921	Founder, Austrian School of Economics
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Wislawa Szymborska	Poet	2-Jul-1923	1-Feb-2012	Polish poet
Krzysztof Zanussi	Film Director	17-Jun-1939		A Year of the Quiet Sun

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Norman Davies	Historian	8-Jun-1939		God's Playground

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