Aleksander Kosiba | |
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Born |
Poland |
January 18, 1901
Died | September 18, 1981 | (aged 80)
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. There he worked for five months - May to September. In 1978 he published his last scientific work, "The snow, glaciers — ice sheets."