The award ceremony of The 2022 Foundation for Polish Science Prizes was held on December 7. The laureates are three outstanding scientists: Professors Marcin Nowotny, Bartosz Grzybowski, and Adam Łajtar.
The FNP Prize honors outstanding achievements and scientific discoveries that push the boundaries of cognition and open new research perspectives, provide an exceptional contribution to Poland’s civilizational and cultural advancement and assure the country with a significant position for undertaking the most ambitious challenges of the modern world. The amount of the award is PLN 200,000.
The FNP Prizes have been awarded since 1992. Including this year’s winners, there have been a total of 113 laureates. Among them are such eminent scholars as: Andrzej K. Tarkowski, Andrzej Trautman, Timothy Snyder, Elżbieta Frąckowiak, Jadwiga Staniszkis, Karol Modzelewski, Andrzej Paczkowski, Anna Wierzbicka, Ewa Wipszycka, Karol Myśliwiec, Tomasz Dietl, Andrzej Jajszczyk, Marcin Drąg, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Jacek Jemielity, Jan Strelau, Jerzy Szacki, Andrzej Szczeklik, Piotr Sztompka, Andrzej Udalski, Ewa Górecka, Bożena Kamińska-Kaczmarek.