– I am deeply convinced that it is a matter of two, three, four years old, that we will have Polish Nobel Prize in science. I know it will be so because I watch what they are work research and what is happening in science – said Kidawa -Błońska at a meeting on the occasion of the upcoming International Women's and Girls Day in Science (February 11). She added that Poland Learning needs support if “we want to be a modern, ambitious country and Europe is to be competitive.”
– As (Maria) Skłodowska-Curie said, science is beautiful. This is true, but it requires very strong support and understanding that it is needed. It requires patience, but also requires money – emphasized the Senate Marshal.
Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska met with scientists. They do it
As Magdalena Jędrkiewicz, the manager of the NCBJ human resource management department informed, in this institution women constitute about 30 percent. researchers. A dozen of them took part in the meeting.
– I am a specialist in the field of plasma surface engineering. This is part of the material engineering and part of the science in which I can show creatively in creating new structures, new materials – said in an interview with PAP prof. Katarzyna Nowakowska-Plangier, head of the Plasma and Jonowe Technologies Department of the NCBJ. A scientist who has several patentsshe added that some of her and her team's research have already been used in industry. This is, for example, the GAS (Gas Injection Magnetron Sputtering) method, which was used in the production of protective coatings on large -scale windows.
She also described her work in an interview with PAP, MSc. Aleksandra Lenartowicz-Gasik, a physicist at the nuclear apparatus plant of the NBCJ. – I deal primarily with accelerating structures in linear accelerators, as well as dosimetric measurements of photon and electron beams – she said. She also explained that accelerators are used, among others In medicine – primarily in radiotherapy: “Radiotherapy has been helping to treat oncological diseases for years. We, as the NBC for several years, have been dealing with one radiotherapy technique. We have constructed, designed and created an accelerator for intraoperative therapy. This device is unique in relation to conventional accelerators, which we use on a daily basis in oncological hospitals.
The researcher explained that during the operation the accelerator drives to the operating table where the patient is lying. The electrons beam generated by the device, the so -called postoperative lodge, i.e. a place after tumor cutting. In this way, cancer cells are destroyed, which after surgery could still remain among healthy tissues. Thanks to this, patients – because in Poland they are most often treated with this method – after a few days they can return home and do not have to undergo classical radiation therapy later.
Aleksandra Lenartowicz-Gasik also encouraged young people, especially women, to decide on a scientific career. – Working in exact sciences, working in learning at all is extremely interesting. Every day we meet with other challenges, with other problems to solve and it really gives great satisfaction – she emphasized.
It's worth knowing about NCBJ
The National Center for Nuclear Research, which is located in the Otwocky – Świerk district, was established in 2011 from the merger of the Institute of Atomic Energy and the Institute of Nuclear Problems. The NCBJ includes 11 scientific facilities, 6 research and development plants and nuclear reactor Maria. This only working Polish nuclear reactor was launched in 1974. Its main role is the production of radiopharmaceuticals. (PAP)
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