Day 1: Departure - Arrival- Check in |
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... and Roma |
Reaching at last Warsaw, overflying its suburb. |
Day 2: To the Copernicus Science Center |
The Copernicus Science Center, a monumental hallmark in the heart of the capital . The Center kindly invited us there as their special guests and organised all the segments during the good part of the day we stayed there along with a dedicated guide. |
 The Center is located on the river bank of the Vistula river, this country long river that we will be following till the next step of our trip at Krakow at the other side of the country. The river ends its course in the Baltic sea near the northern city of Gdansk that we couldn't visit due to lack of time. |
More fun here at the " Air – is not just nothing" exhibit. See this video clip here.
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At the planetarium of the Kopernicus Center for a 3D- projection. THe planetarium recently set up is one of the top such facility in Europe |
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Here a picture with some of the members of the Center's Directorate who kindly hosted us.
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Day 3: To the Marie Sklodowska Curie's Museum and the Old Warsaw town
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A Refusenik at heart: Marie Curie and her husband (At right) declined to go to Stockholm to receive the prize in person as they were too busy with their work.
Later, the French government offered her the French "Légion d' Honneur" award but she refused. She was often portrayed in the public opinion in France as was unworthy foreigner, but as a French heroine when receiving foreign honors such as her two Nobel Prizes.
The French Academy of Sciences failed to elect her as a member to the Academy but elected instead Édouard Branly, a mere inventor. |
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In front of the Museum's entrance |
Marie Curie's desk
Expressing one's feelings on the Museum Golden Book ...
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Marie Curie's diploma in physics signed by Raymond Poincaré, the French Minister of Higher Education. The very raison for her coming to Paris was her yearning to become a physicist. Her coming back to native Poland was stifled by the Jagiellonian University in Krakow refusal to register as she didn't accept women. See below our visit to that University. |
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The French presidential decree granting Marie Curie the Professorship. |
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In the Old Varsovie |
The old Warsaw city |
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At the Algerian Embassy in Warsaw |
A warm welcome by the Embassy staff waiting for us at the entrance |
With his Excellency Mr.Salah Lebdioui, the Algerian Ambassador to Poland. |
Giving a presentation on the aims of our trip and the Cirta Science contest
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Ambassador's interview for the Al-Nasr newspaper by Yasmine Bouldjedri |
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Lecture by Dr. Boguslaw Zagorski from the Ibn Khaldun Institute on the history of Poland and of the Muslim presence there. |
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