Wincenty Okołowicz
Wincenty Okołowicz [Polish pronunciation: [w] ] (1906-1979) was a Polish geographer who specialized in climatology and geomorphology. He is the author of the major Polish classification of world's climates.
Born July 26, 1906 in a small village of Boków, he was professor at the Warsaw University since the year 1954. 1953-1959 he was a director of Państwowy Instytut Hydrologiczno-Meteorologiczny (State Hydrological and Meteorological Institute).
1956-1959 he was a vice-chairman of a Polish Academy of Sciences's Commission that concerned The International Geophysical Year. He is the author of a map of climatic spheres (1965) as well as the first Polish textbook for climatology (Klimatologia ogólna, 1969).
Okołowicz died September 3, 1979 in Warsaw.
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