Henryk Arctowski

Henryk Arctowski [ xɛnrɨk artstɔfsk ʲ i] ( born July 15, 1871 in Warsaw, † February 21, 1958 in Washington, DC) was a Polish scientist, oceanographer and explorer of Antarctica.

He grew up and started a study of geology and chemistry at the University of Liège and put this away at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1895 he took connection to the organizer of the first Belgian Antarctic Expedition, Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, and was hired by this as a research Assistant Director. In this Belgica expedition, which went from 1897 to 1899, Arctowski gathered a large amount of scientific data. So he documented the formation of sea ice and icebergs in many and collected the results of meteorological observations over a full year. As an oceanographer, he created with the help of probes a bathymetric map of the area traversed. After the expedition Arctowski prepared his data in the Royal Belgian Observatory ( Observatoire Royal de Belgique) on in Ukkel.

In addition to his research Arctowski also held a series of lectures abroad. On one of these trips he met in London, the American singer Arian Jane Addy, whom he later married. In the summer of 1910 he took part in an expedition of the ship Ile- de -France to Svalbard and the Lofoten Islands as scientific director. After his return, he organized the scientific department of the City Library of New York, where he was employed as head of department from 1911 to 1919.

1920 Arctowski returned back to Poland, where he was the prime minister, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, offered the post of Minister of Education. Arctowski but refused and was for chief of Geophysics and Meteorology Department of the University of Lemberg. In 1939, when World War II broke out, he was in Washington and as a return to Poland was impossible, he took a job with the Smithsonian Institution. Here he devoted himself to the study of the Sun and took advantage of some data he had collected 1926-1930. In addition, he was elected President of the International Commission on Climate Change. From 1950 he gave up his position at the Smithsonian due to progressive disease, but he did research still privately on.

After Arctowski a Polish research station in Antarctica are named ( Arctowski station) and a number of geographic spots in Antarctica and Svalbard.

  • Polar explorer
  • Discoverer ( 20th century)
  • Honorary doctorate from the National Ivan Franko University of Lviv
  • Pole
  • Born in 1871
  • Died in 1958
  • Man
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