Edmund Załęski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Załęski

chemist, agrotechnician, plant breeder

Date of Birth: 18-Aug-1863

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1932

Profession: chemist, botanist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Edmund Zaleski (18 August 1863 in Lviv (Lemberg), Austria-Hungary – December 1932 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish chemist, agrotechnician, and plant breeder.
He was a professor at the Agricultural University of Dublany, as well as a professor (beginning in 1918) at Jagiellonian University, where he also served as rector from 1930–1931. Zaleski created new, valuable varieties of wheat and sugar beet.
His book Metodyka doswiadczen rolniczych (Methodology of agricultural experiments) was published in 1927.
Professor Tadeusz Calinski of the Poznan University of Life Sciences credits him with the "first systematic lecture on the methodology of agricultural experiments with some application of probability theory."