Aleksander Kosiba
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![]() Alexander Kosiba. Polish geographer. | |
Born | Poland | 18 January 1901
Died | 18 September 1981 | (aged 80)
Nationality | Polish |
Occupation(s) | Geographer and glaciologist |
Aleksander Kosiba (born 18 January 1901 in Libusza — died 18 September 1981 in Wrocław) was a Polish geographer, geophysicist, glaciologist and climatologist.
Kosiba's undergraduate tertiary studies were at the then Jan Kazimierz University.
He was an honorary member of Norwegian Geographical Society. Kosiba was involved in a Greenland expedition in 1934 by Denmark.[1] There he worked for five months - May to September.[2] In 1978 he published his last scientific work, "The snow, glaciers — ice sheets."
References[edit]
- ^ Instytut Zachodni (1977). Polish Western affairs. Instytut Zachodni. p. 307. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
- ^ Arctic Regions: Greenland: Completed Expeditions Polar Record