Such treasures include the busts of Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus beside the world's third-largest radio telescope in Cheshire and of Poland’s former Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces Gen Władysław Sikorski near Buckingham Palace; the world's first mine detector designed by Józef Kosacki in Lincolnshire; a life-sized bronze sculpture of Gen Stanisław Maczek in Edinburgh; works of the photographer Walery, whose sitters included Queen Victoria; a plaque honouring scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Joseph Rotblat; works of Polish artists at the Victoria and Albert Museum and many more.
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