Statue of Copernicus The great Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus is remembered, among other things, as providing the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory of the solar system.
Statue of Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), was the most outstanding and prolific Polish writer of the second half of the nineteenth century. He won the The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905.