# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurycy-pius-rudzki
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:40:14.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurycy-pius-rudzki"
name: "Maurycy Pius Rudzki"
slug: "maurycy-pius-rudzki"
description: "Maurycy Pius Rudzki (1862–1916) was the first person to call himself a professor of geophysics. He held the Chair of Geophysics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, 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 field."
tagline: "Polish geophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maurycy_Pius_Rudzki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1862-11-28"
deathDate: "1916-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.07
  momentum:             8.697478991596636
  historical:           5.001764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://pau.krakow.pl/PKHN-PAU/pkhn-pau-VIII-2007-7.pdf"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Pius_Rudzki"
    title: "Maurycy Pius Rudzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Pius_Rudzki"
    title: "Maurycy Pius Rudzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Pius_Rudzki"
    title: "Maurycy Pius Rudzki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Рудзкий, Маврикий"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%83%D1%81_%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Мауриций Піус Рудзький"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6793999"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump