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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henryk Arctowski has received more than 191,084 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Henryk Arctowski is the 44th most popular geologist, the 876th most popular biography from Poland (down from 836th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Geologist.

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  • 190k

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  • 49.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Henryk Arctowski has had the most page views in the with 22,572 views, followed by English (8,133), and French (1,243). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Occitan (391.25%), Vietnamese (201.00%), and Dutch (172.39%)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Henryk Arctowski ranks 44 out of 90. Before him are Hiroo Kanamori, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Arthur Holmes, John Phillips, Alexander Karpinsky, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt. After him are Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Richard Kirwan, Alfred Lacroix, Niles Eldredge, Luigi Palmieri, and Gerard De Geer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Henryk Arctowski ranks 113. Before him are Dénes Berinkey, José Enrique Rodó, Jacob Ellehammer, Olga Preobrajenska, Fritz Schaudinn, and Vasyl Stefanyk. After him are Emiliano Chamorro Vargas, Walter Breisky, Vatslav Vorovsky, Lottie Dod, Walter Kaufmann, and Giovanni Giorgi. Among people deceased in 1958, Henryk Arctowski ranks 116. Before him are Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Carl Westergren, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, J. G. Strijdom, Erwin Bauer, and Richard Goldschmidt. After him are Jesse L. Lasky, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Applegarth, Bhagwan Das, Feodor Gladkov, and Lydia Lipkowska.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Arctowski ranks 876 out of 1,694. Before him are Janusz Gortat (1948), Klaus Hänsch (1938), Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389), Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985), Ewa Demarczyk (1941), and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (1950). After him are Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885), Józef Kozłowski (1757), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), and Władysław Ślewiński (1856).

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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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