section_path: Commemoration/Poland
section_name: Poland
paragraph_text: Poland
  
  Copernicus is commemorated by the Nicolaus Copernicus Monument in Warsaw, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1822), completed in 1830; and by Jan Matejko 's 1873 painting, Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God.
  
  Named for Copernicus are Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; Warsaw 's Copernicus Science Centre, the Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika (a principal Polish research institution in astrophysics) and Copernicus Hospital in Poland's fourth largest city, Łódź.
  
  A Copernicus Award was established jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science and the German Research Foundation, to promote Polish-German scientific cooperation.