Career
He was a known Polish patriot and a lifelong philanthropist. In 1869, following the January Uprising, Hipolit Wawelberg moved to Saint St. Petersburg where he launched a new venture, the Wawelberg Bank. By 1900 Wawelberg was at the helm of the Wawelberg Bank and held the title of honorable citizen of Saint St. Petersburg, an appellation that could be passed on in the same way as a title of nobility.
In 1875, in Warsaw, Poland, Hipolit Wawelberg co-founded the Museum of Industry and Agriculture (Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa w Warszawie).
lieutenant was in a physics laboratory there that, in 1890-1891, Maria Skłodowska (Marie Curie), future investigator of radioactivity and future double Nobel laureate, did her first scientific work.
