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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 191,767 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Henryk Arctowski is the 45th most popular geologist, the 836th most popular biography from Poland (down from 809th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Henryk Arctowski ranks 45 out of 59Before him are William Nicol, Joachim Barrande, Pentti Eskola, Niles Eldredge, Norman L. Bowen, and Julius von Haast. After him are Ferdinand Zirkel, Alexander Karpinsky, Luigi Palmieri, Oskar Lenz, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, and M. King Hubbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Henryk Arctowski ranks 107Before him are Gino Fano, Gyula Károlyi, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, José Enrique Rodó, Nils Edén, and Fritz Schaudinn. After him are Frank Schlesinger, Nicholas Adontz, Jacob Ellehammer, Giovanni Giorgi, Vatslav Vorovsky, and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas. Among people deceased in 1958, Henryk Arctowski ranks 114Before him are Jesse L. Lasky, Vladimir Lossky, Marcel Cachin, Karl Lashley, Robert Lindsay, and Haykanoush Danielyan. After him are Carl Westergren, Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, Geoff Bent, John Marshall, Ferdinand Bruckner, and Herbert Brenon.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Henryk Arctowski ranks 836 out of 1,454Before him are Sawa (1938), Ursula Happe (1926), Heinz Hopf (1894), Danuta Siedzikówna (1928), Klaus Hänsch (1938), and Karol Kurpiński (1785). After him are Marie Rambert (1888), Zygmunt Noskowski (1846), Władysław Żeleński (1837), Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1750), and Richard Herrmann (1923).

Among GEOLOGISTS In Poland

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