Aleksander Kosiba Explained

Aleksander Kosiba
Birth Date:18 January 1901
Birth Place:Poland
Nationality:Polish
Occupation: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."

Notes and References

  1. Book: Instytut Zachodni. Polish Western affairs. 19 March 2012. 1977. Instytut Zachodni. 307.
  2. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5624316 Arctic Regions: Greenland: Completed Expeditions