GEOLOGIST

Henryk Arctowski

1871 - 1958

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Henryk Arctowski (15 July 1871 – 21 February 1958; Polish pronunciation: [ˈxɛnrɨk art͡sˈtɔfskʲi]), born Henryk Artzt, was a Polish scientist and explorer. Living in exile for a large part of his life, Arctowski was educated in Belgium and France. He was one of the first humans to winter in Antarctica, as part of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, and became an internationally renowned meteorologist, also working for over 10 years in the United States. Arctowski was instrumental in restoring Polish independence after the First World War, after which he returned to Poland, where he continued a prolific academic career, having even declined an offer to become Minister of Education. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henryk Arctowski is the 47th most popular geologist (down from 44th in 2019), the 875th most popular biography from Poland (up from 876th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Henryk Arctowski ranks 47 out of 90. Before him are Adolphe d'Archiac, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Joachim Barrande, Hiroo Kanamori, Lawrence Lambe, and Alfred Lacroix. After him are Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Niles Eldredge, Marcel Alexandre Bertrand, William Nicol, Julius von Haast, and Luigi Palmieri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Henryk Arctowski ranks 120. Before him are Olga Preobrajenska, Walter Breisky, Nicholas Adontz, Florence R. Sabin, Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, and Vatslav Vorovsky. After him are Ernst Stromer, Vasyl Stefanyk, Walter Kaufmann, Federigo Enriques, Stijn Streuvels, and Bodil Katharine Biørn. Among people deceased in 1958, Henryk Arctowski ranks 121. Before him are Ferdinand Bruckner, Herbert Brenon, Gustaf Söderström, Armas Järnefelt, Richard Goldschmidt, and Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. After him are Billy Meredith, Oreste Puliti, Geoff Bent, Henock Abrahamsson, Arvid Holmberg, and Émile Delchambre.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Arctowski ranks 875 out of 1,694. Before him are Leopold von Wiese (1876), Aleksander Skrzyński (1882), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), Hugo Erdmann (1862), and Theodor Tolsdorff (1909). After him are Wilhelm Hasse (1894), Jan Klemens Branicki (1689), Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1750), Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (1953), Hans Baluschek (1870), and Marlene Schmidt (1937).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Poland

Among geologists born in Poland, Henryk Arctowski ranks 2. Before him are Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749).

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