I’m not exactly sure why I was so delighted that the airport was named after Chopin.
I mean, they could’ve named it after Copernicus, who introduced the world, or at least the Western world, to the Heliocentric Theory — the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around. The Copernican model represents one of the major scientific advances in history, fundamentally altering our understanding of our place in the universe. So, you can see why I would suggest that he might have been a worthy candidate when it came to choosing a new name for the Warsaw airport.
They could have named it after Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields – Physics and Chemistry. (Linus Pauling, the vitami