Wincenty Okołowicz

Wincenty Okołowicz (; 26 June 1906 – 3 September 1979) was a Polish geographer and an expert in geomorphology and climatology. He is best known as the author of the 1965 major Polish classification of world's climates, Climatic Zones of the World .

Early life Okołowicz was born in a small village of Boków, near modern-day Pidhaitsi, Ukraine.

Career In 1945, he joined the newly established Department of Geography, at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He became a professor at Warsaw University in 1952. From 1953 to 1959, he was the director of the State Hydrological and Meteorological Institute .

From 1956 to 1959, he was a vice-chairman of the Polish Academy of Sciences's Commission for 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 on 3 September 1979 in Warsaw.