French Participation in the 2nd International Polar Year 1932-33 Serge Kahn In 1873, the Austrian Weyprecht put forward the idea of an important scientific event whose project was developed at the International Congress of Meteorology in Rome in April 1879, then in Hamburg the same year, in Bern in 1880 and in St. Petersburg in 1881. The aim was to … Continue reading French Participation in the 2nd IPY