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Aleksander Kosiba

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Aleksander Kosiba
Alexander Kosiba. Polish geographer.
Born(1901-01-18)18 January 1901
Poland
Died18 September 1981(1981-09-18) (aged 80)
NationalityPolish
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

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  1. ^ Instytut Zachodni (1977). Polish Western affairs. Instytut Zachodni. p. 307. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  2. ^ Arctic Regions: Greenland: Completed Expeditions Polar Record