{"id":134780,"date":"2020-06-30T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=134780"},"modified":"2020-06-30T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:33:52","slug":"dr-marek-nikolajuk-becomes-secretary-of-the-polish-national-committee-of-the-international-astronomical-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/dr-marek-nikolajuk-becomes-secretary-of-the-polish-national-committee-of-the-international-astronomical-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Marek Niko\u0142ajuk becomes secretary of the Polish National Committee of the International Astronomical Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Marek Niko\u0142ajuk, Prof. of University of Bialystok (UwB) from the Faculty of Physics UwB, was appointed to join the administration of the International Astronomical Union. Over the next 4 years, he will be the Secretary IAU &#8211; National Committee for Astronomy in Poland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is an organization of world professional astronomers. Established in 1919, it currently has 13,392 members from 113 countries around the world. Poland has been a member of the IAU since 1922.<\/p>\n<p>IAU&#8217;s mission is to promote and support astronomy in all its aspects: research, education, popularization and international cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>As the only one such organization worldwide, IAU has the exclusive right to give names to newly discovered celestial bodies (including galaxies, stars, extrasolar planets, objects in our solar system).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Marek Niko\u0142ajuk, Prof. of University of Bialystok (UwB) from the Faculty of Physics UwB, was appointed to join the administration of the International Astronomical Union. Over the next 4 years, he will be the Secretary IAU &#8211; National Committee for Astronomy in Poland. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is an organization of world professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}