George Alexander Doumani (16 April 1929 – 16 March 2021) was a Lebanese Palestinian geologist and explorer.[1]

Biography

George Alexander Doumani was born in Akko, British Mandate of Palestine on 16 April 1929.[2] He joined Terra Sancta College in Jerusalem and awarded the Palestinian matric in 1948, during the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight he left with his family to Bkassine village in Lebanon. He went to Saudi Arabia in 1949 and worked in oil field. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the International Geophysical Year in 1958 in Antarctica. He made other trips to the southern continent in the early 1960s. His findings helped prove the continental drift theory.[1] Two Antarctic mountains are named after him: Mount Doumani and Doumani Peak. In 1999 he published a book about Antarctica, The Frigid Mistress: Life and Exploration in Antarctica.[3] Doumani died in Washington D.C. on 16 March 2021, at the age of 91.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Mona Lisa Mouallem (10 March 2004). "A tribute at the crossroads of the Arab-American experience". Daily Star (Lebanon). Archived from the original on 12 October 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  2. ↑ John Stewart: Antarctica – An Encyclopedia. Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6, p. 451.
  3. ↑ Doumani, George (1999). The Frigid Mistress: Life and Exploration in Antarctica. Noble House. ISBN 978-1-56167-476-3. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "George Doumani". Legacy. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "George Alexander Doumani". Dignity Memorial. Retrieved 17 November 2023.


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