Edmund Załęski (18 August 1863 in
Lviv
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(Lemberg), Austria-Hungary – December 1932 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish chemist, agrotechnician, and plant breeder. He was a professor at the Agricultural Academy in Dublany, Agricultural University of Dublany, as well as a professor (beginning in 1918) at Jagiellonian University, where he also served as rector from 1930–1931.
Załęski created new, valuable varieties of wheat and sugar beet. His book ''Metodyka doświadczeń rolniczych'' (''Methodology of agricultural experiments'') was published in 1927. Professor Tadeusz Caliński of the University of Life Sciences in Poznań, Poznań University of Life Sciences credits him with the "first systematic lecture on the methodology of agricultural experiments with some application of probability theory."
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1863 births
1932 deaths
Academic staff of Jagiellonian University
Scientists from Lviv
Polish chemists
Rectors of the Jagiellonian University
Chemists from Austria-Hungary
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