Antoni Boleslaw Dobrowolski was born in 1872 in Poland. He was educated in physical sciences at the universities of Zrich and Lige. In 1897, he joined the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-1899 (leader Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery), as assistant meteorologist. During the southern winter of 1898, he made a special study of the formation and movement of clouds formations and of the different forms of snow and ice in the atmosphere, publishing his results in 1903. His observations of clouds became the basis of the international system of classification of clouds. He served as professor of meteorology at the University of Warsaw and director of the Polish National Meteorological Institute, publishing extensively during his academic career including works on the history of polar exploration and the natural history of ice. Dobrowolski Island, close to Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, is named for him. He died on 27 April 1954 at Warsaw, Poland.
Published work Historja naturalna lodu (Polish) by Antoni Dobrowolski, Palac Staszica Warsaw (1923) SPRI Library Shelf 551.32 Wyprawy polarne. Historja i zdobycze naukowe (Polish) by Antoni Dobrowolski, Naklad Henryka Lindenfelda Warsaw (1914) SPRI Library Shelf (2)91(091)[pub.1914] Moj zyciorys naukowy (Polish) by Antoni Dobrowolski, Zaclad Narodowy Imienia Ossolinskich-Wydawnictwo Wroclaw (1958) SPRI Library Shelf 92[Dobrowolski, A.B.]
From the guide to the Antoni Dobrowolski collection, 1917, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)
