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Jan Nagórski

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Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation (1888-1976)

ScientistsLived 1888 to 1976 · aged 88
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Alfons Jan Nagórski (1888-1976), also known as Ivan Iosifovich Nagursky, was a Polish engineer and pioneer of aviation, the first person to fly an airplane in the Arctic and the first aviator to perform a loop with a flying boat.

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The Farman MF.11 plane used by Jan Nagórski in his pioneering flights off NW Novaya ZemlyaThe Farman MF.11 plane used by Jan Nagórski in his pioneering flights off NW Novaya Zemlya

Awards 6

1915Order of Saint Anna, 4th class
1915Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
1914Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class
Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class
Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class
Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Scientists born in the 1880s 6

Andrés Martínez Trueba48.8Johanna Westerdijk48.2Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche48.9Dmitrii Ivanovich Sosnowsky48.1Gunnar Nordström48.9Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu48.0

About this person

Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1888 to 1976 · aged 88
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12 languages

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