''Wszechświat'' (, "The Universe") is a Polish popular-science magazine, currently issued as quarterly by

Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists The Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists () is a Polish scientific society for natural sciences researchers. History The society was founded in 1875 in Lviv on the initiative of natural sciences researchers in Lviv under the leadership of F ...

, supported by

AGH University of Science and Technology AGH University of Krakow, (abbreviated as ''AGH University''; formerly: AGH University of Science and Technology or ''AGH UST'') is a public university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1913, its inauguration took place in 1919. The university foc ...

and

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History

''Wszechświat'' was founded in 1882 as a biweekly, initiators were students and teachers of The Main School in

Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...

. First editor-in-chief of the magazine was chemist Bronisław Znatowicz. He was leading the journal for many years. In 1914, when

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began, ''Wszechświat'' was closed and Znatowicz left. The magazine was reactivated as a monthly in 1927. Since 1929 the editor-in-chief was the biologist

Jan Bohdan Dembowski Jan Bohdan Dembowski (; 26 December 1889 – 22 September 1963) was a Polish biologist and academic who was the first President of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Biography Dembowski was born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire and studied in ...

. In 1930, in the result of Dembowski's activity, Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists took mastership over ''Wszechświat'' and in 1934 editorial office was moved to

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. In 1939 the journal was closed again because of

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. It was brought back to life by geologist Kazimierz Maślankiewicz and zoologist Zygmunt Grodziński in 1945 in

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. Since 1981 until 2002 the editor-in-chief was pharmacologist and biochemist Jerzy Vetulani. Nowadays the whole title is 'Wszechświat. Pismo Przyrodnicze' (the English translation: ''The Universe. Magazine of Nature'').

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