EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Warsaw, Poland

Founding Date:
19-Nov-1816

Enrollment:
60,000

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

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Menachem Begin	Head of State	16-Aug-1913	9-Mar-1992	Prime Minister of Israel, 1977-82
David Ben-Gurion	Head of State	16-Oct-1886	1-Dec-1973	First Prime Minister of Israel
Samuel Eilenberg	Mathematician	30-Sep-1913	30-Jan-1998	Category theory
Leonid Hurwicz	Economist	21-Aug-1917	24-Jun-2008	Mechanism design theory
Lech Kaczynski	Head of State	18-Jun-1949	10-Apr-2010	President of Poland, 2005-10
Paul Kletzki	Conductor	21-Mar-1900	5-Mar-1973	Director, Bern Symphony, 1964-67
Leszek Kolakowski	Philosopher	23-Oct-1927	17-Jul-2009	Polish refugee philosopher
Adam Michnik	Activist	17-Oct-1946		Gazeta Wyborcza
Bohdan Paczynski	Astronomer	8-Feb-1940	19-Apr-2007	Gravitational microlensing
Joseph Rotblat	Physicist	4-Nov-1908	31-Aug-2005	Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist
Yitzhak Shamir	Head of State	15-Oct-1915	30-Jun-2012	Twice Israeli Prime Minister
Henryk Sienkiewicz	Author	5-May-1846	15-Nov-1916	Quo Vadis?
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Alfred Tarski	Mathematician	14-Jan-1902	26-Oct-1983	Tarski's indefinability theorem
Wilfrid Voynich	Activist	31-Oct-1865	19-Mar-1930	Voynich manuscript
Krzysztof Zanussi	Film Director	17-Jun-1939		A Year of the Quiet Sun

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leszek Kolakowski	Philosopher	23-Oct-1927	17-Jul-2009	Polish refugee philosopher
Jan Lukasiewicz	Mathematician	21-Dec-1878	13-Feb-1956	Invented Reverse Polish Notation
Waclaw Sierpinski	Mathematician	14-Mar-1882	21-Oct-1969	Sierpinski's gasket
Alfred Tarski	Mathematician	14-Jan-1902	26-Oct-1983	Tarski's indefinability theorem
Georgy Voronoy	Mathematician	28-Apr-1868	20-Nov-1908	Voronoi diagram

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