{"id":152356,"date":"2020-11-03T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=152356"},"modified":"2020-11-03T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:37:43","slug":"scientist-of-the-university-of-warsaw-receives-chilean-government-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/scientist-of-the-university-of-warsaw-receives-chilean-government-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist of the University of Warsaw receives Chilean Government Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Government of Chile, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan&#8217;s discovery of the strait between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, has established an award for outstanding researchers whose work responds to the challenges and needs of the present day. For a significant contribution to the development of astronomical knowledge, the award was granted to Prof. Andrzej Udalski, scientist of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The jury appreciated his contribution to the advancement of astronomical knowledge, especially his project &#8220;The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment&#8221; (OGLE), whose team made significant discoveries in the study of the structure of the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds and the discovery of extrasolar planets. The basis of the OGLE team&#8217;s activities are astronomical observations conducted with the Polish telescope located at the Las Campanas observatory in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>-This award is a very pleasant surprise for me. Maybe mainly because it was granted by the government of a distant country, which appreciated my team&#8217;s work, comparing it in a sense to the achievements of great explorers of the 15th and 16th centuries &#8211; said Prof. Udalski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Chile, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan&#8217;s discovery of the strait between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, has established an award for outstanding researchers whose work responds to the challenges and needs of the present day. For a significant contribution to the development of astronomical knowledge, the award [&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\/152356"}],"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=152356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}