Maurycy Pius Rudzki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maurycy Pius Rudzki

Polish geophysicist

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1862

Place of Birth: Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 20-Jul-1916

Profession: astronomer, university teacher, geophysicist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Maurycy Pius Rudzki (b.
1862, d.
1916) was the first person to call himself a professor of geophysics.
He held the Chair of Geophysics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and established the Institute of Geophysics there in 1895.
His research specialty was elastic anisotropy, as applied to wave propagation in the earth, and he established many of the fundamental results in that arena.